MATHO-PASCAL(1)

💖 MATHO-PASCAL 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because we're about to talk about a lil command from the Mathomatic Utilities fam and it's honestly iconic 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

matho-pascal — display Pascal's triangle 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

matho-pascal [number-of-lines]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so this command-line utility is optionally part of the mathomatic(1) package, which is giving "we ride together but we're not technically attached" energy 💅

It calculates up to 1000 lines of Pascal's triangle using floating point arithmetic, and dumps all those lines straight to standard output. And the default? The default is to center one screen full, which is lowkey the most aesthetic choice tbh 🫶

Now the math tea ☕:

• Every number inside Pascal's triangle is the sum of the two numbers immediately above it 🔥
• Each line of Pascal's triangle is the same as the binomial coefficients for a given power ✨
• The sum of all numbers in each line of Pascal's triangle is a power of 2 💀 (no fr, every single line, it's giving main character consistency)

✨ AUTHOR ✨

George Gesslein II (gesslein@mathomatic.org) at "http://www.mathomatic.org" 👑

✨ REPORTING BUGS ✨

if you find a bug, please report it to the author or at "https://launchpad.net/mathomatic" — bestie do NOT just suffer in silence, the author wants to know 🐛💖

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• mathomatic(1)
• matho-primes(1)
• matho-sumsq(1)

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this one came to you from the Mathomatic set of manual pages (that's the source/version vibe, MATHO-PASCAL(1) section, in case the vibe check needed receipts) — go center yourself a screen full of triangle and slay ✨💅