Problem 55980. Generate Pascal's Triangle Matrix

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• Appears in MATLAB Fundamentals - Programming Constructs

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Pascal's triangle is an arrangement of numbers where each value is the sum of the values adjacent to it in the previous row:

The values can also be calculated directly. The value of the row is . For example, the fifth row is 1, 4, 6, 4, 1:

nchoosek(4,0)

ans =

1

nchoosek(4,1)

ans =

4

nchoosek(4,2)

ans =

6

nchoosek(4,3)

ans =

4

nchoosek(4,4)

ans =

1

Given a positive integer n, return an n-by-n matrix that represents the values of the first n rows of Pascal's triangle. The first k values of the kth row of the matrix will be the values from Pascal's triangle; the remaining n-k values should be 0.

For example, for n = 6, the output should be

1 0 0 0 0 0

1 1 0 0 0 0

1 2 1 0 0 0

1 3 3 1 0 0

1 4 6 4 1 0

1 5 10 10 5 1

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