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    Blaise Pascal (/pæˈskæl/ pass-KAL, also UK: /-ˈskɑːl, ˈpæskəl, -skæl/ -⁠KAHL, PASS-kəl, -⁠kal, US: /pɑːˈskɑːl/ pahs-KAHL; French: [blɛz paskal]; 19 June...
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    Pascal's calculator (also known as the arithmetic machine or Pascaline) is a mechanical calculator invented by Blaise Pascal in 1642. Pascal was led to...
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    Pascal's wager is a philosophical argument advanced by Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), seventeenth-century French mathematician, philosopher, physicist, and...
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    Pascal's law (also Pascal's principle or the principle of transmission of fluid-pressure) is a principle in fluid mechanics given by Blaise Pascal that...
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    Blaise Pascal University (French: Université Blaise-Pascal), also known as Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand II or just Clermont-Ferrand II,...
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    Young's modulus, and ultimate tensile strength. The unit, named after Blaise Pascal, is an SI coherent derived unit defined as one newton per square metre...
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  • Lycée Blaise Pascal or Lycée Français Blaise Pascal (LFBP) may refer to: Lycée Français Blaise Pascal Abidjan - Abidjan, Ivory Coast Lycée Blaise Pascal de...
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    than water, a tube only 80 cm was now needed, not 10.5 m. In 1646, Blaise Pascal along with Pierre Petit, had repeated and perfected Torricelli's experiment...
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  • The Blaise Pascal Chairs (Chaires Internationales de Recherché Blaise Pascal), established in 1996 by the Government of the Île-de-France Region for internationally...
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  • much of the Western world, it is named after the French mathematician Blaise Pascal, although other mathematicians studied it centuries before him in Persia...
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    manuscripts is presented in an illustrated catalog published in 2022. Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) studied fluid hydrodynamics and hydrostatics, centered on...
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    philosopher Blaise Pascal, temperance respects the balance between the two extremities of insatiable desire and total lack thereof. Like Montaigne, Pascal believes...
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  • is most commonly ascribed to four philosophers: Søren Kierkegaard, Blaise Pascal, William James, and Ludwig Wittgenstein; with fideism being a label...
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  • is named after French mathematician, philosopher and physicist Blaise Pascal. Pascal was developed on the pattern of the ALGOL 60 language. Wirth was...
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    Pensées (category Works by Blaise Pascal)
    written by the French 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the...
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    mathematician and physicist, Blaise Pascal. In April 2019, Nvidia enabled a software implementation of DirectX Raytracing on Pascal-based cards starting with...
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  • list of people with the name Pascal (surname), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist...
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  • beginnings of modern probability theory in the 17th century, it led Blaise Pascal to the first explicit reasoning about what today is known as an expected...
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    points which lie on a straight line, called the Pascal line of the hexagon. It is named after Blaise Pascal. The theorem is also valid in the Euclidean plane...
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    Two decades after Schickard's supposedly failed attempt, in 1642, Blaise Pascal decisively solved these particular problems with his invention of the...
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    Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher Jacqueline Pascal (1625–1661), child prodigy, youngest sister of Blaise...
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  • Scotus, William of Ockham and Anselm of Canterbury during Scholasticism. Blaise Pascal was an active Christian apologist during the 17th century. In the modern...
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  • Lycée Blaise Pascal de Libreville is a French international school in Libreville, Gabon. It includes collège (junior high school) and lycée (senior high...
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    machine works (specified by r) before it breaks down. The Pascal distribution (after Blaise Pascal) and Polya distribution (for George Pólya) are special...
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    asserted that because these letters had been lost for three hundred years, Blaise Pascal had been called and celebrated as the inventor of the mechanical calculator...
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  • aphorists were Baltasar Gracián, François de La Rochefoucauld, and Blaise Pascal. Two influential collections of aphorisms published in the twentieth...
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    football player Blaise Matuidi, French football player Blaise de Montluc, French soldier Blaise Pascal, French mathematician Blaise Rabetafika, Malagasy...
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  • aphoristic writing style (conceptismo) and often quoted him in his works. Blaise Pascal approached pessimism from a Christian perspective. He is noted for publishing...
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    transport in the world, developed by mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal. Paris in the era of Louis XIV was one of the world's most populous...
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    Jacqueline Pascal (4 October 1625 – 4 October 1661), sister of Blaise Pascal and Gilberte Périer was born at Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France. Like...
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