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Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, a Common card
Abū al-Wafāʾ Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Būzjānī was a Persian mathematician and astronomer who worked in Baghdad.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 59
- DEF
- 52
- Power
- 111
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 5,700
Power 111 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He is also credited with compiling the ______ of sines and tangents at 15' intervals.
Answer
tables. He is also credited with compiling the tables of sines and tangents at 15' intervals. From the Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Dan Cammish. Dan Cammish 75 · 2018 Bathurst 1000 72 · Mashallah ibn Athari 65 · Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani 59 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.
- He made important innovations in spherical trigonometry, and his work on arithmetic for businessmen contains the first instance of using negative numbers in a medieval Islamic text.
- He is also credited with compiling the tables of sines and tangents at 15' intervals.
- He also introduced the secant and cosecant functions, as well studied the interrelations between the six trigonometric lines associated with an arc.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani article was read about 5,700 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 59 and blocks with 52: each hit it takes is cut by 21 %.
How to get Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
