One of my favorite mathematicians is Blaise Pascal.

One of my favorite mathematicians is Blaise Pascal. He worked with triangles and pressure and created a computationial Tax machine machine. So before 1640.

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JoeXP · 56-60, M

Good old Pascal’s triangle! I seem to remember learning N!/(N-R)! x R!

We used to like to say ‘R shriek’ rather than ‘factorial R’.

swirlie · 31-35

@JoeXP
Pascal didn't invent numbers, he only made the rest of us aware of what those numbers mean when they're used in ways he described, which means Pascal was only the messenger, not the brilliant inventor.