"Explaining" a coincidental connection between Pascal's triangle and symmetries of lattices

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The $1$s on the edges of Pascal's triangle appear infinitely many times in the array.

One number ‒ just one ‒ appears exactly once.

Infinitely many have multiplicity $2.$

Infinitely many have multiplicity $3.$

Infinitely many have multiplicity $4.$

Infinitely many have multiplicity $6.$

One is known to have multiplicity $8;$ whether any others do is unknown.

Whether any odd multiplicities more than $3$ occur is unknown.

Singmaster's conjecture is that the set of multiplicities is bounded, so it may be that no multiplicities exceeding $8$ occur.

(The one known to have multiplicity $8$ is $\dbinom{3003} 1 = \dbinom{78} 2 = \dbinom{15} 5 = \dbinom{14} 6.$)

  • The multiplicities known to occur infinitely many times are $2,3,4,6.$
  • The only rotational symmetries of a two-dimensional lattice are of order $2,$ $3,$ $4,$ or $6.$

Might there be some connection between the two problems that explains why that same set of numbers appears? (Here's a wild fantasy: Prove the statement about Pascal's triangle by using the statement about symmetries of lattices.)