: A gallery of beautiful
: pascal like triangles
: The mathematical background for
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The fractions
have many interesting properties, but here we are going to study
.
See the following Figure 5 and 6.
We let and , and make a triangle by
for natural numbers with and .
Then we get the following Figure 5.
If we calculate each
, then we get the following Figure 6.
One of the authors (Matsui) studied the least nonnegative residues of numbers in Figure 6 taken modulo 2, and he got the following Figure 7. He is a freshman in a high school, and he did not know the Sierpinski Gasket. Therefore his discovery shows an amazing possibility of young students.
After he discovered Figure 7, he colored 1,0 with different colours. In the next section you can see many beautiful pictures made from these Pascal like triangles.
: A gallery of beautiful
: pascal like triangles
: The mathematical background for
Contents