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Layers of Pascal's pyramid derived from coefficients in an upside-down ternary plot of the terms in the expansions of the powers of a trinomial – the number of terms is clearly a triangular number. In mathematics, a trinomial expansion is the expansion of a power of a sum of three terms into monomials. The expansion is given by
The third power of the trinomial a + b + c ... from the terms by using the multinomial coefficient formula. For example, ... function's asymptotic expansion ...
For instance, the polynomial x 2 + 3x + 2 is an example of this type of trinomial with n = 1. The solution a 1 = −2 and a 2 = −1 of the above system gives the trinomial factorization: x 2 + 3x + 2 = (x + a 1)(x + a 2) = (x + 2)(x + 1). The same result can be provided by Ruffini's rule, but with a more complex and time-consuming process.
Pascal's pyramid's first five layers. Each face (orange grid) is Pascal's triangle. Arrows show derivation of two example terms. In mathematics, Pascal's pyramid is a three-dimensional arrangement of the trinomial numbers, which are the coefficients of the trinomial expansion and the trinomial distribution. [1]
The middle entries of the trinomial triangle 1, 1, 3, 7, 19, 51, 141, 393, 1107, 3139, … (sequence A002426 in the OEIS) were studied by Euler and are known as central trinomial coefficients. The only known prime central trinomial coefficients are 3, 7 and 19 at n = 2, 3 and 4. The -th central trinomial coefficient is given by
In the second step, the distributive law is used to simplify each of the two terms. Note that this process involves a total of three applications of the distributive property. In contrast to the FOIL method, the method using distributivity can be applied easily to products with more terms such as trinomials and higher.
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For example, it models the probability of counts for each side of a k-sided die rolled n times. For n independent trials each of which leads to a success for exactly one of k categories, with each category having a given fixed success probability, the multinomial distribution gives the probability of any particular combination of numbers of ...