I first encountered Pascal’s triangle on a worksheet my older brother brought home from school when I was in eighth grade. At the time, I was taking geometry (with a teacher who had a cool pair of ...

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Well, Pascal was a French mathematician who lived in the 17th century. And, no, he was not the first person to study this triangle…not by a long shot.

To make your own Pascal’s triangle, all you need is a pen and paper and one very simple rule – each number in the triangle is the sum of the two numbers directly above it.