Splitting Ladder

Starting with a natural number at the top, we can split it at each level such that the two lower neighbours always add up to the higher neighbour.  Let’s repeat this process until a row can’t be split using whole numbers in the following row anymore.

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Triangular and Trapezoidal Numbers

Triangular numbers and trapezoidal numbers are both natural numbers that can be expressed as the sum of more than one consecutive natural numbers.

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