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Blaise Pascal, a Rare card
Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 82
- Power
- 161
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 400,000
Power 161 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Blaise Pascal quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Blaise Pascal card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Pascal was a child prodigy who was educated by his ______ Étienne Pascal, a tax collector in Rouen.
Answer
father. Pascal was a child prodigy who was educated by his father Étienne Pascal, a tax collector in Rouen. From the Blaise Pascal article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Hungarian language. Hungarian language 87 · Jeffrey Sachs 82 · Blaise Pascal 79 · Iron lung 76 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Orion. Orion 840,000 · Cloud computing 650,000 · Blaise Pascal 400,000 · James Naismith 320,000 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.
- Pascal was a child prodigy who was educated by his father Étienne Pascal, a tax collector in Rouen.
- His earliest mathematical work was on projective geometry, he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of conic sections at the age of 16.
- He later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Blaise Pascal article was read about 400,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 82: each hit it takes is cut by 33 %.
How to get Blaise Pascal
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Blaise Pascal (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : unknown, a copy of the painting of François II Quesnel, which was made for Gérard Edelinck, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
