Pascal

Pascal or PASCAL may refer to:

People

• Pascal (given name), a French given name
• Pascal (surname), a French and Italian surname
• Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), French mathematician and philosopher
• Cleo Paskal, environmental scientist
• Pascal (musician), stage name of drum and bass musician Pascal Redpath

Things named after Blaise Pascal

• Pascal (unit) (Pa), the SI unit of pressure (equivalent to one newton per square meter)
• Pascal (programming language), a programming language developed by Niklaus Wirth between 1968 and 1969
• Pascal distribution, a special case of the negative binomial distribution
• Pascal's triangle, a geometric arrangement of the binomial coefficients in a triangle
• Pascal's law, a physics principle relating pressure at various points in an incompressible fluid
• Pascal (crater), a lunar crater
• Pascal's theorem, also known as the Hexagrammum Mysticum Theorem
• Pascal's Wager, a philosophical argument for belief in God

Other uses

• PASCAL (database), a scientific bibliographic database maintained by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information (INIST)
• Pascal blanc, a French white wine grape
• 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”
• Pascal College, school in Zaandam, the Netherlands, for pre-university secondary education
• 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
• PAS/CAL, a pop band from Detroit, Michigan
• Royal Malaysian Navy PASKAL, special forces unit

See also

• Pascall (disambiguation)
• Paschal (disambiguation)
• Pascual (disambiguation)
• Pasqual (disambiguation)
• Pasquale (disambiguation)