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Uncommon card · Science
Archytas, an Uncommon card
Archytas was an Ancient Greek mathematician, music theorist, statesman, and strategist from the ancient city of Taras in modern Apulia, Southern Italy.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 42
- Power
- 104
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 25,000
Power 104 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Archytas quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Archytas card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Angular resolution. Angular resolution 65 · Archytas 62 · Clock face 59 · Wellington Monument, Dublin 51 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Least common multiple. Least common multiple 84,000 · Angular resolution 58,000 · Clock face 39,000 · Archytas 25,000 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.
- He was a scientist and philosopher affiliated with the Pythagorean school and famous for being the reputed founder of mathematical mechanics and a friend of Plato.
- As a Pythagorean, Archytas believed that arithmetic, rather than geometry, provided the basis for satisfactory proofs, and developed the most famous argument for the infinity of the universe in 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 Archytas article was read about 25,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 62 and blocks with 42: each hit it takes is cut by 17 %.
How to get Archytas
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Archytas in the power ranking, all domains together.
- GRB 090423Uncommon · Science · ATK 64 DEF 40
- HaflongUncommon · Society · ATK 57 DEF 47
- Wellington Monument, DublinUncommon · Science · ATK 51 DEF 53
- Wynn MacauUncommon · Society · ATK 49 DEF 55
- 16th Street Baptist ChurchUncommon · History · ATK 59 DEF 45
- CasterUncommon · Science · ATK 60 DEF 44
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Archytas (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NikonZ7II, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
