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Alternating Pascal (Posted on 2011-12-08)

Prove that for any row of Pascal's Triangle if you alternately subtract and add terms you always get 0.

Note: this is obvious for odd rows [1-3+3-1=0]
but not so obvious for even rows [1-4+6-4+1=0]

See The Solution Submitted by Jer

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Subject	Author	Date
re: Also true for pascal-like tables(spoiler)	Ady TZIDON	2011-12-09 10:03:53
Also true for pascal-like tables(spoiler)	Steve Herman	2011-12-08 13:19:26

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