Pascal

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Contents 1 People 2 Fictional characters 3 Music 4 Other uses 5 See also

Pascal may refer to:

[edit] People

Main article: Pascal (name)

history of, and people with the given name and surname "Pascal"

• Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), French mathematician and philosopher.

[edit] Fictional characters

• Pascal, a character in the video game Animal Crossing: Wild World
• Pascal, the main character in the film, The Red Balloon
• Pascal, a character in the television series Beauty and the Beast, portrayed by Armin Shimerman.
• Pascal, a character in the novel: Felidae (novel) along with the movie: Felidae (film). Voiced by Klaus Maria Brandauer
• Pascal Curious, a character from The Sims 2.

[edit] Music

• Pascal an alias of Flip & Fill, dance music producers Graham Turner and Mark Hall

[edit] Other uses

• Pascal (crater), a lunar crater
• Pascal distribution, a special case of the negative binomial
• Pascal's Law, a physics principle relating pressure at various points in an incompressible fluid
• Pascal's mystic hexagram
• Pascal (programming language), a programming language developed in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth
• Pascal's triangle, a geometric arrangement of the binomial coefficients in a triangle
• Pascal (unit), a unit of pressure equivalent to one newton per square meter
• Pascal's Wager, a philosophical argument for belief in God
• 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"
• PAS/CAL, a pop band from Detroit, Michigan
• Pascal Press, an Australian book publisher
• Pascal Publishing House in Poland
• Paskal, a Malaysian naval special forces unit

[edit] See also

• Paschal (meaning Easter, and names) disambiguation page