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Re: Pascal's triangle spacing is off. Need

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  • Subject: [mg121294] Re: Pascal's triangle spacing is off. Need
  • From: Tomas Garza <tgarza10 at msn.com>
  • Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 08:29:25 -0400 (EDT)
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It seems the link is outdated...
-Tomas

> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 03:55:56 -0400
> From: murray at math.umass.edu
> Subject: Re: Pascal's triangle spacing is off. Need DigitCount?
> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>
> I don't see what's more pretty with the vertex-in-center version, just
> that it's more familiar.
>
> For actual manipulation of Pascal's triangle by computer or in formulas,
> the flush-left rows seems better suited. See, for example, the page:
>
>    http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Pascal's%20Triangle
>
> That is based upon the insight of Ken Iverson many years ago.
>
> On 9/5/11 7:05 AM, Helen Read wrote:
> > There's certainly a case for that, but it's pretty with the symmetry
> > about a vertical line, with the 1's going down the sides, and the
> > interior entries being the sum of the two neighbors in the row above.
> >
> > HPR
> >
> > On 9/4/2011 6:07 PM, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> >> Why should Pascal's triangle be arranged so that it has symmetry around
> >> a vertical line, and with its vertex at the center horizontally?
> >>
> >> Why not pad just to the right, so that each row starts flush left?
> >>
> >> The latter seems in a way more "natural" (if I may dare to use that
> >> term), since each element of a row is then in its correct position
> >> (indexing from 0 instead of 1, of course).
> >>
> >> On 9/4/11 4:12 AM, Heike Gramberg wrote:
> >>> You could use Grid  in combination with ItemSize instead of Row to give
> >>> all the entries the same width, e.g.
> >>>
> >>> pascalTrngl2[n_] :=
> >>>     Module[{max, sp}, max = Max[Table[Binomial[n, j], {j, 0, n}]];
> >>>      sp = Round[N[Log[10, max], 5]];
> >>>      Column[Table[Grid[{Table[Binomial[i, j], {j, 0, i}]},
> >>>         ItemSize ->    sp], {i, 0, n}], Center]]
> >>>
> >>> pascalTrngl2[10]
> >>>
> >>> Heike
> >>>
> >>> On 3 Sep 2011, at 14:04, Christopher O. Young wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I'm trying to get the same spacing between the _center points_ of each of
> >>>> the numbers in the Pascal triangle, so that each entry in a row is centered
> >>>> properly underneath the corresponding two entries in the row above. Instead,
> >>>> all the spacing options for Row[ ] seem to just apply to the spacings
> >>>> between numbers.
> >>>>
> >>>> It looks like I would have to calculate the length (i.e., number of digits)
> >>>> of each entry as I go through the table. Is DigitCount the best function to
> >>>> use here? I.e., won't slow things down too much? Or is there a faster way?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks for any help.
> >>>>
> >>>> Chris Young
> >>>> cy56 at comcast.net
> >>>>
> >>>> pascalTrngl2[n_] :=
> >>>> Module[
> >>>>     {max, sp},
> >>>>
> >>>>     max = Max[Table[Binomial[n, j], {j, 0, n}]];
> >>>>     sp = Round[N[Log[10, max], 5]];
> >>>>
> >>>>     Column[
> >>>>      Table[
> >>>>       Row[
> >>>>        Table[Binomial[i, j], {j, 0, i}],
> >>>>        Invisible[sp]
> >>>>        ],
> >>>>       {i, 0, n}
> >>>>       ],
> >>>>      Center
> >>>>     ]
> >>>> ]
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
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