Harriot, Thomas, Mss. 6785

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                <emph style="bf">Commentary:</emph>
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              <s xml:space="preserve"> A generalization of Pascal’s triangle,showing the results of multiplication by
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              and by 3 (see also Add MS 6782
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              ).
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              Note that in the third table, the entry
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                        <mn>1</mn>
                        <mn>2</mn>
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              on the diagonal, for example, is to be read as
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                        <mo>×</mo>
                        <mn>4</mn>
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                        <mo>×</mo>
                        <mn>2</mn>
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              and similarly for the other entries.
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              In the lower part of the page are general formulae for the rows, similar to those that Harriot derived elsewhere for the standard version of Pascal's triangle.
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              See also page 2 of the 'Magisteria' (Add MS
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              ).
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> Æquipollentia ex utraque
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            parte diagonalis perse
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            [
              <emph style="bf">Translation: </emph>
            Equality (or symmetry) on either side of the diagonal is shown by ]</s>
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