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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)Other, lost works of al-Karaji's are known to have dealt with inderterminate algebra, arithmetic, inheritance algebra, and the construction of buildings. Another contained the first known explanation of the arithmetical (Pascal's) triangle; the passage in question survived through al-Sama'wal's Bahir (twelfth century) which heavily drew from the Badi.
However, the use of binomial coefficients by Islamic mathematicians of the eleventh century, in a context which had deep roots in Islamic mathematics, suggests strongly the table was a local discovery - most probably of al-Karaji."
Other, lost works of al-Karaji's are known to have dealt with inderterminate algebra, arithmetic, inheritance algebra, and the construction of buildings. Another contained the first known explanation of the arithmetical (Pascal's) triangle; the passage in question survived through al-Sama'wal's Bahir (twelfth century) which heavily drew from the Badi.
But these in the alternate areas, which are given, I observed were the same with the figures of which the several ascending powers of the number 11 consist, viz. , , , , , etc. that is, first 1; the second 1, 1; the third 1, 2, 1; the fourth 1, 3, 3, 1; the fifth 1, 4, 6, 4, 1, and so on.