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Blaise Pascal was a man who lived at the intersection of cold logic and deep existential questioning. Long before the invention of the smartphone or the 24-hour news cycle, he identified a fundamental ...

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Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages developers still use daily, and what they’re good for. The computer revolution has ...

The Pascaline was invented by Blaise Pascal in 1642.Wikimedia Commons Art and luxury auction house Christie’s has withdrawn the world’s first calculating machine, designed by French mathematician ...

Christie’s has halted the sale of a rare 17th-century arithmetic machine that was due to be auctioned on November 19. Hours before the Pascaline, named after its polymath inventor Blaise Pascal, was ...

Blaise Pascal is known for a number of things, but we remember him best for the Pascaline, an early mechanical calculator. [Chris Staecker] got a chance to take a close look at one, which is quite a ...

Pascal lived in a time of great scepticism. Medieval philosophy was dead, and medieval theology was being ignored or sneered at by the new intellectuals of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth ...

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Best Actor nominee Pedro Pascal arrives at the Peacock Theater. “Pascal’s slow trajectory to becoming a household name who is on a wildly hot streak kind of reaffirms my faith in our industry,” Robert ...