Kitchen Counting

Published by patrick honner on

I was making lemonade the other day, and this happened.

which of course, equals, the following:

There you have it:  the sum of the first three triangle numbers is the third tetrahedral number!  Proof by lemons.

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patrick honner

Math teacher in Brooklyn, New York

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