Pascal

(noun.) a programing language designed to teach programming through a top-down modular approach.

(noun.) French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662).

(noun.) a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter.

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• Pascal thought that this pressure would be less at a high altitude. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Later Pascal experimented with the siphon and succeeded in explaining it on the principle of atmospheric pressure. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Galileo, Torricelli, Pascal, and Sir Isaac Newton in the Seventeenth Century. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It would be like marrying Pascal. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Vérité, au de?à des Pyrénées, erreur au de là, says Pascal. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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