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WE BRIEFLY met Pascal’s triangle in the lecture on Probability when we saw how it arose through the ways of getting different numbers of heads and tails when tossing several coins. We also noted that it could be introduced as the coefficients in the binomial expansion of (x + y)n.
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Barnes, J. (2016). Pascal’s Triangle. In: Nice Numbers. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46831-0_12
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