Adam Ries, a Common card

Adam Ries was a German mathematician.
From the Wikipedia article

Rarity: Common
Domain: Science
ATK: 57
DEF: 44
Power: 101
Wikipedia reads a year: 6,200

Power 101 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.

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The facts on the card

The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.

He is also known by the name Adam Riese.
He is known as the "father of modern calculating" because of his decisive contribution to the recognition that Roman numerals are unpractical and to their replacement by the considerably more practical Arabic numerals.

Why it is Common

Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Adam Ries article was read about 6,200 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 44: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.

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Credits

Text : Wikipedia, Adam Ries (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.