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Adriaan van Wijngaarden, a Common card
Adriaan "Aad" van Wijngaarden was a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 55
- DEF
- 27
- Power
- 82
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 5,400
Power 82 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 25 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Trained as a mechanical engineer, Van Wijngaarden emphasized and promoted the mathematical aspects of computing, first in numerical analysis, then in programming languages and finally in design principles of such languages.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Adriaan van Wijngaarden article was read about 5,400 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 55 and blocks with 27: each hit it takes is cut by 11 %.
How to get Adriaan van Wijngaarden
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Adriaan van Wijngaarden (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Robvanroo, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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