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17 equal temperament, a Common card
In music, 17 equal temperament is the tempered scale derived by dividing the octave into 17 equal steps.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 57
- DEF
- 29
- Power
- 86
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 7,000
Power 86 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
17 equal temperament quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the 17 equal temperament card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Each step represents a ______ ratio of 2/17, or 70.6 cents.
Answer
frequency. Each step represents a frequency ratio of 2/17, or 70.6 cents. From the 17 equal temperament article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Kid Abelha. Kid Abelha 60 · 17 equal temperament 57 · Bai Guang 54 · Kaknästornet 50 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Each step represents a frequency ratio of 2/17, or 70.6 cents.
- 17-ET is the tuning of the regular diatonic tuning in which the tempered perfect fifth is equal to 705.88 cents, as shown in Figure 1.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The 17 equal temperament article was read about 7,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 57 and blocks with 29: each hit it takes is cut by 12 %.
How to get 17 equal temperament
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
More Arts cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below 17 equal temperament in the power ranking, all domains together.
- AnnetteCommon · Society · ATK 66 DEF 20
- Klaus J. BehrendtCommon · Arts · ATK 57 DEF 29
- Becky MoodyCommon · Society · ATK 55 DEF 31
- Kid AbelhaCommon · Arts · ATK 60 DEF 26
- National Council of Applied Economic ResearchCommon · Society · ATK 60 DEF 26
- Koo Wee RupCommon · Society · ATK 52 DEF 34
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, 17 equal temperament (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : JimPlamondon, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
