ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Floyd's triangle

Floyd's triangle is a special pattern of numbers that looks like a triangle.

Imagine if you had a piece of paper with one number at the top of the page. Then, under that number, you wrote two numbers in a row. Under those two numbers, you wrote three numbers in a row. Then, you kept going until you had a row of ten numbers.

That's Floyd's triangle! It looks like a triangle because each row has one more number than the row on top of it.

Here's an example of what Floyd's triangle might look like:

1
2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9 10

You might notice that the numbers in Floyd's triangle always start with 1 and go up to a certain number. In this case, the triangle goes up to 10. But you could make a bigger triangle that goes up to 20, or even a smaller one that goes up to 6.

It's a fun way to practice counting and learn about patterns!
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