Haskell's Triangle

The polymath Blaise Pascal envisaged a triangle built of numbers. Pascal’s triangle — as it is usually called, despite the fact that its discovery predated Pascal by centuries — has the interesting property that each number is the sum of the two numbers directly above it. In this post we will use Pascal’s triangle to demonstrate how recursion (i.e., a procedure that invokes itself in its definition) can be used to make complex problems easily soluble, using examples written in both Haskell and JavaScript. Wikipedia ...

2017-07-17 · 5 min · 947 words · Thomas Cothran