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Sierpinski's triangle and the Prouhet-Thue-Morse word

David Callan

math.COarXiv:math/0610932

Abstract

Sierpinski's triangle is a fractal and the Prouhet-Thue-Morse word is sufficiently chaotic to avoid cubes. Here we observe that there is at least a tenuous connection between them: the Sierpinski triangle is evident in Pascal's triangle mod 2 whose inverse, as an infinite lower-triangular matrix, involves the Prouhet-Thue-Morse word.

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