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Generalized Pell-Fermat equations and Pascal triangle

Using Pascal triangle, we give a simple generalization to the so-called STRAND Puzzle solved by Srinivasa Ramanujan. Thus we are interested in computing the median, first and third quartiles of some integer valued distributions, arising naturally when extending partial sums of the arithmetic progression (triangular numbers) to tetrahedral numbers and beyond. We show this reduces to equations of Pell-Fermat type of higher order, which admit very few integer solutions, but for which, following Ramanujan's original idea, we can always find integer sequences of best approximation, in the Diophantine sense. In absence of a general theory on Pell-Fermat equation of higher order, our procedure relies much on formal Calculus with Mathematica.