The Pascal Triangle was not invented by Pascal per say; tons of mathematicians before him had studied it. He just happened to be the one that got the most results out of it. The Pascal Triangle is a very natural table of the binomial coefficients, and it can be found quite easily when you are looking at the right things.So I guess you can say that the reason it was invented is was because it just happens to pop up when looking at binomial coefficients.
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