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Automatic Computing Engine, a Common card
The Automatic Computing Engine was an early British electronic serial stored-program computer design by Alan Turing.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 37
- Power
- 97
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 15,000
Power 97 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Automatic Computing Engine quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Automatic Computing Engine card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Turing completed the ______ design in late 1945.
Answer
ambitious. Turing completed the ambitious design in late 1945. From the Automatic Computing Engine article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
The ACE was not built, but a smaller version, the Pilot ACE, was constructed at the National Physical Laboratory and became operational in ____.
Answer
1950s. The ACE was not built, but a smaller version, the Pilot ACE, was constructed at the National Physical Laboratory and became operational in 1950. From the Automatic Computing Engine article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
List of municipalities in São Paulo. List of municipalities in São Paulo 70 · Ralph M. Steinman 63 · Automatic Computing Engine 60 · Commutative diagram 55 ATK in WikiCards.
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.
- Turing completed the ambitious design in late 1945.
- The ACE was not built, but a smaller version, the Pilot ACE, was constructed at the National Physical Laboratory and became operational in 1950.
- A larger implementation of the ACE design was the MOSAIC computer, which became operational in 1955.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Automatic Computing Engine article was read about 15,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 37: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
How to get Automatic Computing Engine
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Automatic Computing Engine (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Antoine Taveneaux, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
