In mathematics, Pascal's triangle is a triangular array of the binomial coefficients.
The rows of Pascal's triangle are conventionally enumerated starting with row n = 0
at the top (the 0th
row). The entries in each row are numbered from the left beginning
with k = 0
and are usually staggered relative to the numbers in the adjacent rows. The triangle may be constructed in the following manner: In row 0
(the topmost row), there
is a unique nonzero entry 1
. Each entry of each subsequent row is constructed by adding the number above and to the left with the number above and to the right, treating blank
entries as 0
. For example, the initial number in the first (or any other) row is 1
(the sum of 0
and 1
), whereas the numbers 1
and 3
in the third row are added to produce the number 4
in the fourth row.