Pascal,Triangle,and,Powers,Ani education Pascal’s Triangle and Powers of 11

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Aninteresting property of Pascal's triangle is that the rows are the powers of11. I have explained exactly where the powers of 11 can be found, including howto interpret rows with two digit numbers. Later in the article, an informalproof of this surprising property is given, and I have shown how this propertyof Pascal's triangle can even help you some multiplication sums quicker!So, firstly, where can the powers of 11 be found in Pascal's triangle? If welook at the first row of Pascal's triangle, it is 1,1. We are going tointerpret this as 11. The second row is 1,2,1, which we will call 121, which is11x11, or 11 squared. Moving down to the third row, we get 1331, which is11x11x11, or 11 cubed. And from the fourth row, we get 14641, which is11x11x11x11 or 11^4. This information is summarised in the diagram below:1 11 2 11 3 3 11 4 6 4 111 = 11^1121 = 11^21331 = 11^314641 = 11^4But what do we do from row 5 onwards? Row 5 is 1,5,10,10,5,1, but if youhave a calculator, you can check that 11^5 is 161051, not 15101051. The patternappears to stop working. However, we can in fact apply it to rows 5 andonwards, as we can interpret 1,5,10,10,5,1 as 161051.Firstly, we need to understand why the pattern appears to have stoppedworking - then we stand a chance of sorting things out. The reason is that inrow 5, we have suddenly got two digits numbers (the 10s). It is easier if wethink of the numbers from pascal's triangle fitting into spaces. In row 5, weare squishing two digits into the same space.to understand how to interpret 1,5,10,10,5,1, we need to think about exactlywhat we have been doing so far. When we saw 1,2,1, for example we put the first1 in the hundreds column to mean 100, the two in the tens column to mean 20,and the last 1 in the units column to mean 1. Now we can see that when get a 10in, for example the hundreds column, this actually means 10x 100 = 1000. Inother words, you just treat the ten as "0 carry 1" like when you aredoing an addition sum. This is shown for 1,5,10,10,5,1 below:1 5 0 0 5 1+.1 1 these 1s have been carried from the 10= 1 6 1 0 5 1Amazingly, therefore, we can quickly calculate any power of 11 usingPascal's triangle. This can help occasionally if ever you have to calculate apower of 11 quickly. However, the fun doesn't stop here: by modifying Pascal'striangle, we can quickly calculate any number multiplied by a power of 11. Forexample, we could calculate 241 x 11^2. All we do is start with 2,4,1 as ourfirst row. As we are trying to multiply by 11^2, we have to calculate a further2 rows of Pascal's triangle from this initial row. For this, we use the rulesof adding the two terms above just like in Pascal's triangle itself. This isshown below:2,4,12,6,5,12,8,11,6,12 8 1 6 1... 12 9 1 6 1This is a great way to calculate sums involving multiplying by 11 quickly,so even if you never been good at arithmetic try this out on your friends orfamily and impress them with your lightning speed calculations!To show why this works,let's take the number abcd, (where a, b, c and d areeach a digit 0 to 9), and multiply it by 11. We can split this multiplicationinto two bits, as in the diagram below:abcd x 11=abcd x 10 + abcd x 1When multiplying a number by 10, you just add a 0 onto the end of it, soabcd x 10 is the same as abcd0. Now, we can add this to abcd x 1:a b c d 0+. a b c dThis gives an answer of a(+0) b+a c+b d+c 0+d. This may look unwieldy, buthang on a minute! It is the exactly the same as the sums from Pascal'striangle! You can check this using the next diagram.... a... b... c... d(0+)a a+b b+c c+d d(+0)=a(+0) b+a c+b d+c 0+dA similar process can be applied for any number of digits. Therefore, we cansee why this clever little trick works, although this makes it no lessspectacular and is still definitely worth trying out on your friends! Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-priority:99;mso-style-qformat:yes;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;mso-para-margin-top:0cm;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0cm;line-height:115%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}