Art #684: Combinatorics
Six visualizations:
🔺 Pascal mod n — C(n,k) mod 2 → Sierpiński triangle. Mod 3,5,7 → other fractals. (Kummer's theorem: divisibility by p ↔ carries in base-p addition)
🟢 Dyck paths (Catalan) — All 14 paths for n=4. Count of lattice paths never going below zero. C_n = C(2n,n)/(n+1) also counts: binary trees, balanced parentheses, polygon triangulations, non-crossing partitions.
📦 Integer partitions — Young diagrams for n=1..9. Hardy-Ramanujan: p(n) ~ exp(π√(2n/3))/(4n√3)
🗳️ Ballot problem — lattice paths (0,0)→(6,6). Green: stay above diagonal. Blue: cross it. André's reflection principle (1887) gives exact ballot count = C_n.
📊 Stirling S(n,k) — ways to partition n labeled objects into k unlabeled groups. Bell numbers grow faster than exponential.
📉 Binomial B(n,p) — As n grows, all converge to Gaussian. CLT made visible.
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