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Anders Johan Lexell, a Common card
Anders Johan Lexell was a Swedish-speaking Finnish astronomer, mathematician, and physicist who spent most of his life in Imperial Russia, where he was known as Andrei Ivanovich Leksel.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 50
- Power
- 118
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 5,100
Power 118 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Anders Johan Lexell quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Anders Johan Lexell card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
His name was given to a theorem of ______ triangles.
Answer
spherical. His name was given to a theorem of spherical triangles. From the Anders Johan Lexell article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Aquatic therapy. Aquatic therapy 72 · Anders Johan Lexell 68 · Karel Janeček 65 · Andrew Ure 62 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Johannes Fibiger. Johannes Fibiger 6,600 · Anders Johan Lexell 5,100 · Bismuth compounds 3,400 · Twist-related protein 1 2,000 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.
- Lexell made important discoveries in polygonometry and celestial mechanics, the latter led to a comet named in his honour.
- La Grande Encyclopédie states that he was the prominent mathematician of his time who contributed to spherical trigonometry with new and interesting solutions, which he took as a basis for his research of comet and planet motion.
- His name was given to a theorem of spherical triangles.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Anders Johan Lexell article was read about 5,100 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 68 and blocks with 50: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Anders Johan Lexell
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Anders Johan Lexell (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
