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Epic card · Arts
ASCII, an Epic card
ASCII, an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for representing a particular set of 95 printable and 33 control characters – a total of 128 code points.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 86
- DEF
- 82
- Power
- 168
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 820,000
Power 168 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
ASCII quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the ASCII card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
ASCII encodes each code-point as a value from 0 to 127 – ______ as a seven-bit integer.
Answer
storable. ASCII encodes each code-point as a value from 0 to 127 – storable as a seven-bit integer. From the ASCII article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Sardinia. Sardinia 95 · ASCII 86 · Sagittarius A* 82 · Kapila 75 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Anna's Archive. Anna's Archive 17,000,000 · ASCII 820,000 · Sagittarius A* 570,000 · Kapila 45,000 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.
- The set of available punctuation had significant impact on the syntax of computer languages and text markup.
- ASCII hugely influenced the design of character sets used by modern computers, for example, the first 128 code points of Unicode are the same as ASCII.
- ASCII encodes each code-point as a value from 0 to 127 – storable as a seven-bit integer.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The ASCII article was read about 820,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 86 and blocks with 82: each hit it takes is cut by 33 %.
How to get ASCII
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.
More Arts cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below ASCII in the power ranking, all domains together.
- MichelangeloLegendary · Arts · ATK 83 DEF 85
- Honey badgerLegendary · Nature · ATK 74 DEF 94
- The NutcrackerEpic · Arts · ATK 83 DEF 85
- SardiniaEpic · Society · ATK 95 DEF 73
- ScandinaviaEpic · Society · ATK 84 DEF 84
- Heart of DarknessEpic · Arts · ATK 77 DEF 91
Card lists
- Wikipedia quizNew questions every day
- All cards from A to ZEvery card, by name
- Arts cards
- Legendary cards
- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, ASCII (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : An unknown officer or employee of the United States Government, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
