Pascal
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- This is a disambiguation page. For other uses, see Pascal (given name) or Pascal (surname)
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
- Adam Pascal (born 1970), American actor and singer, best known for his role of Roger Davis in the Broadway musical Rent
- Cleo Paskal, environmental scientist
- Pascal (musician), stage name of drum and bass musician Pascal Redpath.
- Pascal Etcheber, the author of "Vagabond Earth"
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
Fictional characters
- 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 by German-Turkish writer Akif Pirinçci and in the film based on the novel
- Pascal (Nintendo), a character from the Nintendo video game series Animal Crossing
- Pascal Curious, a character from The Sims 2
- Pascal, a character from Tales of Graces
- Mattia Pascal, the main character in The Late Mattia Pascal, novel by Luigi Pirandello
- Pascal: the name of the pet chameleon of the main heroine Rapunzel in the film Tangled (2010)
Other uses
- PASCAL (database), a scientific bibliographic database maintained by 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
- Pascal (programming language) Programming language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring
See also
- Paschal (disambiguation)
- Pasqual (disambiguation)
- Pascual (disambiguation)
- Pasquale (disambiguation)
- PAS/CAL, a pop band from Detroit, Michigan
- Royal Malaysian Navy PASKAL, special forces unit