Hockey-stick identity
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Hockey-stick identity
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In combinatorial mathematics, the hockey-stick identity, Christmas stocking identity, boomerang identity, Fermat's identity or Chu's Theorem, states that if n ≥ r ≥ 0 are integers, then The name stems from the graphical representation of the identity on Pascal's triangle: when the addends represented in the summation and the sum itself are highlighted, the shape revealed is vaguely reminiscent of those objects.
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Recurrence relations of binomial coefficients in Pascal's triangle
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2024-02-02T14:00:30Z
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