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Analytical engine, an Uncommon card
The analytical engine was a proposed digital mechanical general-purpose computer designed by the English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 76
- Power
- 150
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 140,000
Power 150 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Analytical engine quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Analytical engine card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It was first described in 1837 as the ______ to Babbage's difference engine, which was a design for a simpler mechanical calculator.
Answer
successor. It was first described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage's difference engine, which was a design for a simpler mechanical calculator. From the Analytical engine article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Kayak. Kayak 80 · Barbary corsairs 77 · Analytical engine 74 · Delian League 71 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Radio. Radio 240,000 · Arkhangelsk 190,000 · Analytical engine 140,000 · Dictionary 110,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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.
- It was first described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage's difference engine, which was a design for a simpler mechanical calculator.
- The analytical engine incorporated an arithmetic logic unit, control flow in the form of conditional branching and loops, and integrated memory, making it the first design for a general-purpose computer that could be described in modern terms as Turing-complete.
- In other words, the structure of the analytical engine was essentially the same as that which has dominated computer design in the electronic era.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Analytical engine article was read about 140,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 76: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get Analytical engine
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Analytical engine (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Charles Babbage, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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