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Pascal's triangle spacing is off. Need DigitCount?

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• Subject: [mg121183] Pascal's triangle spacing is off. Need DigitCount?
• From: "Christopher O. Young" <cy56 at comcast.net>
• Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 08:04:20 -0400 (EDT)
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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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