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61.19 Pascal + Fermat → Gauss

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2016

Per Häggmark*
Affiliation:
Trerörsgatan 3, 42133 Västra Frölunda, Sweden

Extract

Some years ago an interesting article appeared in the Gazette [1] about a young student J. E. Cubbon who had found a theorem on the number of odd coefficients appearing in a row of Pascal’s triangle. Whilst trying to prove Cubbon’s conjecture in my own way, I found an unexpected relation between Pascal’s triangle and the construction of regular polygons.

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Notes
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1977

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References

1. Broomhead, W. Antony, Pascal (modp), Mathl Gaz. 56, 267271 (No. 398, December 1972).Google Scholar