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Uncommon card · Science
Blowing up, an Uncommon card
In mathematics, blowing up or blowup is a type of geometric transformation which replaces a subspace of a given space with the space of all directions pointing out of that subspace.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 28
- Power
- 94
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 19,000
Power 94 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.
Blowing up quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Blowing up card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ operation is called blowing down.
Answer
inverse. The inverse operation is called blowing down. From the Blowing up article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Blowing up. Blowing up 66 · Alfred Vail 60 · Jan Evangelista Purkyně 57 · Air brake 53 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.
- For example, the blowup of a point in a plane replaces the point with the projectivized tangent space at that point.
- The metaphor is that of zooming in on a photograph to enlarge part of the picture, rather than referring to an explosion.
- The inverse operation is called blowing down.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Blowing up article was read about 19,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 28: each hit it takes is cut by 11 %.
How to get Blowing up
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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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Blowing up (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Robx, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
