Pascal’s Triangle Blasé Pacal was born in France in 1623. He was a child prodigy and was fascinated by mathematics. When Pascal was 19 he invented the first calculating machine that actually worked. Many other people had tried to do the same but did not succeed. One of the topics that deeply interested him was the likelihood of an event happening (probability). This interest came to Pascal from a gambler who asked him to help him …showed first 75 words of 888 total…

…showed last 75 words of 888 total…help of Jonathan Borwein of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, and his colleagues, Granville has created a "Pascal's Triangle Interface" on the web. One can specify the number of rows (up to 100), the modulus (from 2 to 16), and the image size to get a colorful rendering of the requested form.It's a neat way to explore the fractal side of Pascal's triangle. Here's one example that I tried out, using 5 as the modulus (Petetson's, 5).