Binomials in Pascal's Triangle

[nordiquefb]

I'm currently working on a project to display Pascal's Triangle and the binomials up to a certain row that the user inputs.

I have the triangle done, but I'm having a bit of trouble getting the binomials to work.

This is what the output should look like for the binomials:

(x + y)^0 = 1
(x + y)^1 = x + y
(x + y)^2 = x^2 + 2xy + y^2
(x + y)^3 = x^3 + 3x^2y + 3xy^2 + y^3
(x + y)^4 = x^4 + 6x^2y^2 + 4xy^3 + y^4
(x + y)^5 = x^5 + 5x^4y + 10x^3y^2 + 10x^2y63 + 5xy^4 + y^5

Here is my code. As you can see Pascal's Triangle outputs right. The binomials...not so much.

using System;



public class Project3
{
    public static void Main()
    {

        int rows = 0;

        Console.Write("Enter an integer bound: ");
        rows = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine());


        //Calculate row (i)

        for (int i = 0; i < rows; i++)
        {
            //Calculate Column (j)

            for (int j = 0; j <= 2 * rows - i * 2; j++)
            {
                Console.Write(" ");
            }
            for (int j = 0; j <= i; j++)
            {
                //Calculate coefficent of row and column
                int entry = factorial(i) / (factorial(j) * factorial(i - j));
                Console.Write(entry);

                if (entry < 10)
                {
                    Console.Write("   ");
                }
                else
                {
                    Console.Write("  ");
                }
            }


            Console.WriteLine("");
        }

        
        //Polynomials
        //Calculate row (i)
        string x = "";
        string y = "";

        for (int i = 0; i < rows; i++)
            
        {
            //Calculate Column (j)
            int xexpo = i;
            int yexpo = 0;
            for (int j = 0; j <= 2 * rows - i * 2; j++)
            
            
            {
                //Calculate coefficent of row and column
                int entry = factorial(i) / (factorial(j) * factorial(i - j));
                Console.WriteLine("(x + y)^" + i + "=" + "x" + "^" + xexpo + " + " + "y^" + yexpo + entry);

               
            }


            
        }

    }

         //Calculate n (factorial)

    public static int factorial(int n)
    {
        int retval = 1;
        for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++)
        {
            retval = retval * i;
        }
        return retval;
    }

    }

I know this will be done similarly to how I coded the triangle. The issue is the way its outputting. Our teacher said that we should start by copying and pasting the code used to get the triangle and removing the code that adds spaces.

The first line should be 1. Also, when an exponent is 1, the exponent won't be printed at all. (I know this can be accomplished with if statements.)

Any ideas to help get my on the right track?

[LizR]

For your sanity, and for those who posted that they couldnt bother to work out how to do a factorial, Please remove the factorial procedure from your example - the rest of us know how factorials work, its your output thats wrong after all, not the numbers.

OK, the problem seems to be the output, not the work, your binomials

Currently you output

1
1 1
1 2 1
1 3 3 1
(x + y)^0=x^0 + y^01
(x + y)^0=x^0 + y^01
(x + y)^0=x^0 + y^00
(x + y)^0=x^0 + y^00
(x + y)^0=x^0 + y^00
(x + y)^0=x^0 + y^00
(x + y)^0=x^0 + y^00
(x + y)^0=x^0 + y^00
(x + y)^0=x^0 + y^00
(x + y)^1=x^1 + y^01
(x + y)^1=x^1 + y^01
(x + y)^1=x^1 + y^00
(x + y)^1=x^1 + y^00
(x + y)^1=x^1 + y^00
(x + y)^1=x^1 + y^00
(x + y)^1=x^1 + y^00
(x + y)^2=x^2 + y^01
(x + y)^2=x^2 + y^02
(x + y)^2=x^2 + y^01
(x + y)^2=x^2 + y^00
(x + y)^2=x^2 + y^00
(x + y)^3=x^3 + y^01
(x + y)^3=x^3 + y^03
(x + y)^3=x^3 + y^03

For this the first thing thats obvious is that you have 1 line per item on your pyramid, not 1 per line, it also doesnt then use the values of that line then to display the binomials, but recalculate them, then if the pyramid line were 1 3 3 1, you're needing to output the various parts of your pyramid in the terms of

a^3 + 3a^2b + 3ab^2 + b^3

where
the ^ of a decreases each position across
the ^ of b increases
the multiplier of each position is taken from the triangle..

This should be sufficient info to help you work out why your output is exceedingly wrong

[nordiquefb]

Thanks for your help. I don't see an edit post button though. Could a mod please remove that part?