(phixonline)--> with javascript_semantics sequence tri = {{55}, {94, 48}, {95, 30, 96}, {77, 71, 26, 67}, {97, 13, 76, 38, 45}, { 7, 36, 79, 16, 37, 68}, {48, 7, 9, 18, 70, 26, 6}, {18, 72, 79, 46, 59, 79, 29, 90}, {20, 76, 87, 11, 32, 7, 7, 49, 18}, {27, 83, 58, 35, 71, 11, 25, 57, 29, 85}, {14, 64, 36, 96, 27, 11, 58, 56, 92, 18, 55}, { 2, 90, 3, 60, 48, 49, 41, 46, 33, 36, 47, 23}, {92, 50, 48, 2, 36, 59, 42, 79, 72, 20, 82, 77, 42}, {56, 78, 38, 80, 39, 75, 2, 71, 66, 66, 1, 3, 55, 72}, {44, 25, 67, 84, 71, 67, 11, 61, 40, 57, 58, 89, 40, 56, 36}, {85, 32, 25, 85, 57, 48, 84, 35, 47, 62, 17, 1, 1, 99, 89, 52}, { 6, 71, 28, 75, 94, 48, 37, 10, 23, 51, 6, 48, 53, 18, 74, 98, 15}, {27, 2, 92, 23, 8, 71, 76, 84, 15, 52, 92, 63, 81, 10, 44, 10, 69, 93}} -- update each row from last but one upwards, with the larger -- child, so the first step is to replace 6 with 6+27 or 6+2. for r=length(tri)-1 to 1 by -1 do for c=1 to length(tri[r]) do tri[r][c] += max(tri[r+1][c..c+1]) end for end for ?tri[1][1]