Consider Pascal's triangle with entries modulo 2, and let (k,l) denote the l-th entry in the k-th row by (k,l).
Show that, for all n∈N, each entry of the triangle with vertices (0,0), (2n−1,0), (2n−1,2n−1) is mapped via the translation (k,l)↦(2n+k,l) to an equal entry (modulo 2), i.e. the translation preserves the triangle entries modulo 2.
This explains the "nice pattern" of Pascal's triangle modulo 2. Since Pascal's triangle simply shows the binomial coefficients, another way to state this is:
Let k,l∈{0,…,2n−1} such that l≤k, and let n∈N. Then it holds
(kl)≡(2n+kl)mod2.
I am searching for an elementary proof for this (perhaps by induction, but I got stuck trying this).
Answer
Note that
(2n+kl)=l∑i=0(2ni)(kl−i).
Now, since i≤l≤2n−1<2n, it follows that if i>0 then 2∣(2ni), so that modulo 2 we get
(2n+kl)≡(2n0)(kl)=(kl)mod2.
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