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In mathematics, Pascal's triangle is a geometric arrangement of the binomial coefficients in a triangle. It is named after mathematician Blaise Pascal in much of the Western world, although other mathematicians studied it centuries before him in India, Persia, China, and Italy. again the famous Indian mathematician who showed the way is

  1. Apastamba

  2. Pingala

  3. aryabhata

  4. Mahavira
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Explanation

Pingala (c. 200 BCE) in his work Chandahshastra on prosody described combinatorial concepts including what we now call Pascal's triangle for enumerating poetic meters. His work on binary numbers and combinatorial patterns predates Pascal by over 1800 years.

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