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pascal [ˈpæskəl] n (Mathematics & Measurements / Units) the derived SI unit of pressure; the pressure exerted on an area of 1 square metre by a force of 1 newton; equivalent to 10 dynes per square centimetre or 1.45 ✕ 10-4 pound per square inch. Symbol Pa [named after Blaise Pascal (1623-62), French philosopher, mathematician, and physicist] Pascal [ˈpæsˌkæl -kəl] n (Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) a high-level computer programming language developed as a teaching language: used for general-purpose programming Pascal1 n (Biographies / Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662) M, French, PHILOSOPHY: philosopher, SCIENCE: mathematician, SCIENCE: physicist) Blaise (blɛz). 1623-62, French philosopher, mathematician, and physicist. As a scientist, he made important contributions to hydraulics and the study of atmospheric pressure and, with Fermat, developed the theory of probability. His chief philosophical works are Lettres provinciales (1656-57), written in defence of Jansenism and against the Jesuits, and Pensées (1670), fragments of a Christian apologia
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| He has said some things in Pascal's vein not unworthy of Pascal. But he who dodges hospitals and jails, and walks fast crossing grave-yards, and would rather talk of operas than hell; calls Cowper, Young, Pascal, Rousseau, poor devils all of sick men; and throughout a care-free lifetime swears by Rabelais as passing wise, and therefore jolly; --not that man is fitted to sit down on tomb-stones, and break the green damp mould with unfathomably wondrous Solomon. Some seconds of a Pascal or a Newton are more precious than the whole existence of a crowd of raw simpletons----" |
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