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Uncommon card · Science
Apollonius of Perga, an Uncommon card
Apollonius of Perga was an ancient Greek geometer and astronomer known for his work on conic sections.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 78
- DEF
- 69
- Power
- 147
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 33,000
Power 147 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Beginning from the earlier contributions of Euclid and Archimedes on the topic, he brought them to the state prior to the invention of analytic geometry.
- His definitions of the terms ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola are the ones in use today.
- With his predecessors Euclid and Archimedes, Apollonius is generally considered among the greatest mathematicians of antiquity.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Apollonius of Perga article was read about 33,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 78 and blocks with 69: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get Apollonius of Perga
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Apollonius of Perga (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Giovanni Battista Memo, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
