HPR1189: Part One: Counting Partridges and Gold Rings

Summary: The Sonar Project has $9,838 raised with 256 people contributing. A big thanks to all the !HPR Listeners who helped out. It's not too late to contribute to the ACF. See http://accessiblecomputingfoundation.org/ for more information. Tomorrow The Eleventh Annual Southern California Linux Expo starts. Running from February 22 to the 24, 2013 in the Hilton Los Angeles International Airport. Speakers include Kyle Rankin, Joe Brockmeier and Matthew Garrett. See http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x for more information The N Days of Christmas? Intro to Recreational Math Part One: Counting Partridges and Gold Rings The complete shownotes can be found here: http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1189/hpr1189.txt http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1189/Pascal_Calcs_Gnumeric.gnumeric http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1189/Pascal_Calcs_non-free.xls http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1189/hpr1189_Charles_in_NJ-N-Days-of-Xmas-Ep-One.zip Pascal's Triangle: http://www.mathisfun.com/pascals-triangle.html http://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Pascal's_triangle Background on Pascal's Triangle and the Binomial Theorem, see the excellent videos by Sal Khan at http://KhanAcademy.org Contact: Charles in NJ Email: catintp@yahoo.com Charlie + Alpha + Tango + India + November + Tango + Papa.