Wednesday 17 April 2013

Pascal's triangle

Here is a Lego model of Pascal's Triangle.


Each number in the triangle is represented by a tower of its prime factors. By changing the order of the blocks you can make the divisibility properties easy to see. Here is the model with all the orange 7 blocks moved to the top.


The upside-down orange triangle shows the numbers that are divisible by 7.

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