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Author Topic: Math Homework and Q*bert.  (Read 6,432 times)

Deozaan

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Math Homework and Q*bert.
« on: October 24, 2008, 09:46 AM »
@!#?@! I've been staring at this Pascal's Trianglew for so long that I'm starting to see Q*bertw in it!

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Re: Math Homework and Q*bert.
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2008, 12:02 PM »
Interesting trivia- colour the odd numbered cells black and the evens white and you get the beginnings of a Sierpiński trianglew, a fractal which can also be generated from the Chaos gamew. Near random chaos in contrast to the beautiful mathematical structure of Pascal's Triangle ;)
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Re: Math Homework and Q*bert.
« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2008, 05:53 PM »
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@!#?@! I've been staring at this Pascal's Triangle for so long that I'm starting to see Q*bert in it!
This is Q*bert!  ;D

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Re: Math Homework and Q*bert.
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2008, 06:08 PM »
Interesting trivia-[...]

Yeah, the Wikipedia article on Pascal's Trianglew goes into detail on some of the patterns found in that triangle, and I'm discovering a few of them myself from my studies.

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