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unusual facts about Zooko's triangle


Zooko's triangle

Computer scientist Nick Szabo illustrated that all three properties can be achieved up to the limits of Byzantine fault tolerance.


Bean machine

Overlaying Pascal's triangle onto the pins shows the number of different paths that can be taken to get to each bin.

Doug Owram

Owram elaborates on the problematics associated with settling Palliser's Triangle and the work of John Macoun; an individual who's interpretation of the Triangle caused many hardships for future settlers.

Jia Xian

Jia Xian invented the Jia Xian triangle around the first half of the 11th century, about six centuries before Pascal.

Pascal's triangle

Pascal's triangle was known in China in the early 11th century through the work of the Chinese mathematician Jia Xian (1010–1070).

Problem of points

Through clever manipulation of identities involving what is today known as Pascal's triangle (including several of the first explicit proofs by induction) Pascal finally showed that in a game where one player needs r points to win and the other needs s points to win, the correct division of the stakes is in the ratio of (using modern notation)

Satan's Triangle

The plot involves a United States Coast Guard helicopter sent to answer a distress call from inside the Bermuda Triangle.

Satan's Triangle is a 1975 TV movie set in the Bermuda Triangle and was produced by ABC.


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