Re: Pascal's triangle spacing is off. Need DigitCount?
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- Subject: [mg121217] Re: Pascal's triangle spacing is off. Need DigitCount?
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 18:05:37 -0400 (EDT)
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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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Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu
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- Pascal's triangle spacing is off. Need DigitCount?
- From: "Christopher O. Young" <cy56@comcast.net>
- Re: Pascal's triangle spacing is off. Need DigitCount?
- From: Heike Gramberg <heike.gramberg@gmail.com>
- Pascal's triangle spacing is off. Need DigitCount?