Finite differences and Pascal’s triangle

The Endeavour 2024-03-04

Summary:

The key to solving a lot of elementary what-number-comes-next puzzles is to take first or second differences. For example, if asked what the next item in the series 14, 29, 50, 77, 110, … the answer (or at lest the answer the person posing the question is most likely looking for) is 149. You might […]

The post Finite differences and Pascal’s triangle first appeared on John D. Cook.

Link:

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2024/03/04/log-pascal/

From feeds:

Statistics and Visualization » The Endeavour

Tags:

math

Authors:

John

Date tagged:

03/04/2024, 14:07

Date published:

03/04/2024, 13:55