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O Christmas Tree

Design a macro that makes trees grow (or ASCII triangles, if that's too hard).

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2a3,20
>  ^
> ^^^
> 
>   ^
>  ^^^
> ^^^^^
> 
>    ^
>   ^^^
>  ^^^^^
> ^^^^^^^
> 
>     ^
>    ^^^
>   ^^^^^
>  ^^^^^^^
> ^^^^^^^^^
> 

Solutions by @GavinKoeng:

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Solutions by @GavinKoeng: