Pascal the Calculating Cat

We have a new cat. His name is Pascal after the famous mathematician. This is due to him being found by a math professor at Texas Tech. Evidently, the kitten a jumped up into the professor's engine compartment of his car and rode home with him. When he got home, there was this nice little kitten. Happily for us, the professor's cat did not like this new kitten, so instead of dropping the kitten back at Texas Tech he felt compelled to find a home for it.
(This is where we come in.)
Taylor heard about this kitten from his math connections, and so we decided to go and get the cat after we caught three mice recently. Glory and Alesha decided that he needed a "math" name. So together we thought about all manner of math names that many people would recognize and be a reasonable for a cat.

You may recall the name Pascal from high school when you learned about Pascal's Triangle (go look it up if you do not know, there is no time to write about it here!). Also, among other things, Blaise Pascal is known for creating one of the earliest calculating machines in 1645 (actually Wikipedia states that he invented the 2nd).

So, Pascal (the cat) is very nice and very timid in the presence of fast movement. We call him the "calculating cat" for two reasons: (1) his name, Pascal lends itself to such; and (2) because even when he is calm, he always seems to be "calculating" his next hiding place and how to get there if there were any swift movements.
Pascal has only hid from us once, but it took us about an hour to find him. Also, when I went to pick him up from my professor's office (which is only a 10'x10' room), my professor and I spent several minutes trying to find him.

(picture coming soon...)