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From Alan Tucker's "Applied Combinatorics," Third Edition.
Explanation of Text Cover: The array of binomial coeeficients, written in classical Chinese characters, forms what in the West is called Pascal's Triangle. While Blaise Pascal observed this pattern in the mid-1800s, the array on the cover appeared in the 1300s in the work of Chu Shih-Chieh.
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heheE
Pascal died in 1662. :)
At first, i didn't believe the text. those don't look chinese numerals to me. more korean.
but apparently numbers were different back then [cite].
you'd think they'd catch that by the THIRD EDITION!
They assume that someone cares where you went to HS?
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