Pascal's triangle Construct a "d"-dimensional triangle (a 3-dimensional triangle is a tetrahedron) by placing additional dots below an initial dot, corresponding to P(1) = 1. Place these dots in a manner analogous to the placement of numbers in Pascal's triangle. To find P("x"), have a total of "x" dots composing the target shape. P("x") then equals the total number of dots in the shape. A 0-dimensional triangle is a point and a 1-dimensional triangle is simply a line, and therefore P("x") = "1" and P("x") = "x", which is the sequence of natural numbers. The number of dots in each layer corresponds
Three-body problem effective potential. In 1767, Leonhard Euler found three families of periodic solutions in which the three masses are collinear at each instant. In 1772, Lagrange found a family of solutions in which the three masses form an equilateral triangle at each instant. Together, these solutions form the "central configurations" for the three-body problem. These solutions are valid for any mass ratios, and the masses move on Keplerian ellipses. These four families are the only known solutions for which there are explicit analytic formulae. In the special case of the circular restricted three-body problem, these solutions, viewed in a frame rotating