Pascal
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Pascal may refer to:
- Étienne Pascal (1588–1651), French judge and amateur scientist, father of Blaise.
- Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), French mathematician and philosopher.
- Jacqueline Pascal (1625–1661), sister of Blaise.
- Francine Pascal, American author
The following are named after Blaise Pascal:
- Pascal (unit), a unit of pressure equivalent to one newton per square meter
- Pascal's Law, a physics principle relating pressure at various points in an incompressible fluid
- 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's Wager, a philosophical argument for belief in God
- Pascal (crater), a lunar crater
- Pascal distribution, a special case of the negative binomial
- Pascal's Mystic Hexagram
Other uses:
- Pascal (name), a masculine given name
- PAS/CAL, a pop band from Detroit, Michigan
- Paskal, a Malaysian naval special forces unit
- Pascal, a character in the video game Animal Crossing: Wild World
- Pascal, the main character in the film, The Red Balloon
- Pascal Press, an Australian book publisher
- Pascal Publishing House in Poland