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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • mathematician Blaise Pascal, although other mathematicians studied it centuries before him in Persia, India, China, Germany, and Italy. The rows of Pascal's triangle...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    preserved at Warwick Castle), Joseph Haydn, John Keats, Franz Liszt, Blaise Pascal, Nikola Tesla (commissioned by his friend Hugo Gernsback and now displayed...
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  • Blaise Pascal is a Canadian singer-songwriter who was active in the early 2000s. Although she released only one album, 2000's Hairspray, she was a Juno...
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  • Étienne Pascal (French: [etjɛn paskal]; 2 May 1588 – 24 September 1651) was a French chief tax officer and the father of Blaise Pascal (1623–1662). Pascal was...
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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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  • Lycée Français Blaise Pascal (LFBP) is a French international school in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. It includes the Ecole Jacques Prévert, the collège-lycée...
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  • français Blaise-Pascal (ESFBP) is a French international school in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is named after Blaise Pascal. Established...
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    Andrew Pascal (born 1965), American businessman in the gaming industry. Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), French mathematician and philosopher Chris Pascal, Co-director...
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  • Blaise Pascal College is a high school in Zaandam, Netherlands. It offers vwo at atheneum and Gymnasium level, as well as havo. The school's Christian...
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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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    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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    Discours sur les passions de l'amour (category Blaise Pascal)
    because it contained no reference to Blaise Pascal. Ferdinando Neri's 1921 work Un ritratto immaginario di Pascal is cited as the first to demonstrate...
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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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    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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