Pascal (disambiguation)

Pascal (disambiguation)

Pascal or PASCAL may refer to:

People

* Pascal (name), a given name or surname
* Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), French mathematician and philosopher

Fictional characters

* Pascal, the main character in the film "The Red Balloon"
* Pascal, a character in the television series "Beauty and the Beast (TV series)", portrayed by Armin Shimerman
* Pascal, a character in the novel "Felidae (novel)" and in the movie "Felidae (film)", voiced by Klaus Maria Brandauer
* Pascal (Nintendo), a character from the Nintendo video game series "Animal Crossing"
* Pascal Curious, a character from "The Sims 2"

Things named after Blaise Pascal

* Pascal (pressure) (Pa), the SI unit of pressure (equivalent to one newton per square meter)
* Pascal (crater), a lunar crater
* Pascal (programming language), a programming language developed in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth
* Pascal distribution, a special case of the negative binomial distribution
* Pascal's law, a physics principle relating pressure at various points in an incompressible fluid
* Pascal's theorem, also known as the Hexagrammum Mysticum Theorem
* Pascal's triangle, a geometric arrangement of the binomial coefficients in a triangle
* Pascal's Wager, a philosophical argument for belief in God

Other things named “Pascal”

* PASCAL (INIST database), a scientific bibliographic database maintained by INIST
* [http://www.pascal-network.org/ Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational Learning] (PASCAL), a Network of Excellence funded by the European Union, which supports collaboration between experts in Machine Learning, Statistics and Optimization
* Pascal, an alias of Flip & Fill, dance music producers Graham Turner and Mark Hall
* Pascal Photocoagulator, a pattern scan laser used in ophthalmology
* J. Pascal's Furniture and Hardware, a Montreal hardware and furniture store trading under the name “Pascal”

ee also

* Paschal (meaning Easter, and names) disambiguation page
* PAS/CAL, a pop band from Detroit, Michigan
*Royal Malaysian Navy PASKAL, special forces unit


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