Dissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle | Infinite Series
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Written and Hosted by Kelsey Houston-Edwards
Produced by Rusty Ward
Graphics by Ray Lux
Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com)

What shape is formed by taking a diagonal slice of a 4-dimensional cube? Or, a 10-dimensional cube? It turns out that a very familiar mathematical object - Pascal’s triangle - can help us answer this question.

Further Resources:

Cube Slices, Pictoral Triangles and Probability
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