Clearly Pascal as a devout Christian made the wager unreasonably biased toward the Judeo-Christian God. The fact that any God one can imagine must have an equal probability of existing due to the wager being not reliant on evidence it means we are unable to give
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EN Composition 1 12/28/12 A Love Triangle Medea and Jason are both manipulative. When Medea learnt that she being force to exile she pleads to Creon soft side to allow her an extra day to regroup herself.Asking him to consider her children and having to provide for them since their father cannot do that anymore.MeanwhileMedea ask Jason to come and leave their children with him and his new family only so that she could use the children to send to carry a gift for the princess which consist of
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The Triangle of Justice Ethically lacking corporate decisions since the industrial revolution have snowballing repercussions onto the populations of the world. As technology grows and economics of scale strengthen‚ the responsibility also grows with both the breadth and depth of the surrounding populations. The breadth and depth refers to the three point demands of sustainability. These three demands of a business are economic‚ social‚ and environmental. Due to the straightforward economic necessities
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be worked out on paper. Calculators expanded the math capabilities of everyone from high school students to businessmen. The original compact calculator was the abacus‚ developed in China in the ninth century. The young French mathematician Blaise Pascal invented the first adding machine in 1642‚ a clever device driven by gears and capable of performing mechanical addition and subtraction. The first commercially successful adding machine was developed in 1886 by William Seward Burroughs The "Millionaire
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ve primary differences between work and academic writing are 1. Writing at work focuses on problem solving. Unlike academic writing where you write to persuade your professor how much you know‚ at work you write to help you perform your job. Primarily‚ you are trying to achieve a specific goal and to complete a job task. 2. Work-related writing targets multiple audiences with different perspectives. In college our primary and‚ typically‚ only audience is our professor. Professors approach
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Babyloneans and the Chinese already knew that a triangle with the sides of 3‚ 4 and 5 must be a right triangle. They used this knowledge to construct right angles. By dividing a string into twelve equal pieces and then laying it into a triangle so that one side is three‚ the second side four and the last side five sections long‚ they could easily construct a right angle. A Greek scholar named Pythagoras‚ who lived around 500 BC‚ was also fascinated by triangles with these special side ratios. He studied
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Blaise Pascal was a French philosopher‚ mathematician‚ scientist‚ inventor‚ and theologian. In mathematics‚ he was an early pioneer in the fields of game theory and probability theory. In philosophy he was an early pioneer in existentialism. As a writer on theology and religion he was a defender of Christianity. Existentialism - a philosophical theory that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will
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to various curves that was equivalent to differentiation. He obtained a technique for finding the centers of gravity for various plane and solid figures. Also‚ he is considered to be one of the founders of the probability theory along with Blaise Pascal. Fermat was the first person known to have evaluated the integral of general power functions. He made contributions in the field of optics and provided a law on light and travel. He wrote a few papers about calculus‚ before Issac Newton and Gottfried
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Blaise Pascal‚ at age 19‚ invented the Pascaline as an aid for his father who was a tax collector. Pascal built 50 of this gear-driven one-function calculator but couldn’t sell many because of their exorbitant cost and because they really weren’t that accurate. Up until the present age when car dashboards went digital‚ the odometer portion of a car’s speedometer used the very same mechanism as the Pascaline to increment the next wheel after each full revolution of the prior wheel. Pascal was a child
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I think my favourite books were the ones that showcased works of the Grimm brothers. I also became very fond of Disney stories that I have come to love because of the movies the franchise produced. Then later on came the popular series by Francine Pascal called Sweet Valley High. I remember getting overly engrossed with the storyline‚ having collected almost all editions of the series. There would also be times that I would bring a Sweet Valley High book to school and read it during recess or lunch
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