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Divisibility properties of binomial coefficients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

K. R. McLean
K. R. McLean*
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School of Education, Liverpool UniversityL69 3BX
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In a very interesting recent article [1] W. A. Broomhead described an investigation carried out by staff and pupils at Tonbridge School of the patterns which result when the numbers in Pascal’s triangle are reduced modulo m. For the case when m equals a prime number, p, the pattern formed by the zeros in the reduced triangle (corresponding to binomial coefficients divisible p) was completely described and the following result (stated by G. Gilbart-Smith) was proved:

In the (n + l)th row of Pascal’s triangle, there are

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Research Article
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 58 , Issue 403 , March 1974 , pp. 17 - 24
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1974

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References

1. Broomhead, W. A., Pascal (mod p), Mathl Gaz. LVI, 267–271 (No. 398, December 1972).Google Scholar
2. Lockwood, E. H. and Gant, P., Factors of binomial coefficients, Mathl Gaz. XLIII, 31–34 (No. 343, February 1959).Google Scholar