Pascal (disambiguation)

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The masculine name Pascal is derived from the latin paschalis, in turn from the Hebrew pesach, which means to be born on, or to be associated with, Passover day. The names Paschal, Pasqual, Pasquale, Pascali, Pascha, Pace, Pascoe and Pasco are all variations of Pascal. The feminine form is Pascalle.

Pascal can refer to several things:

• Blaise Pascal, the French mathematician and philosopher, to whom all the following usages are in homage
• pascal, the SI unit of pressure.
• The Pascal programming language.
• Pascal's triangle in binomial coefficient
• Pascal's distribution (Bernoulli Process), also known as the Negative binomial distribution
• Paskal is a Malaysian naval special forces unit.
• Pascal's wager, a philosophical argument for belief in God

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