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
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