Pascal
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Pascal may refer to:
[edit] People
- 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

