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Cleve Moler, an Uncommon card
Cleve Barry Moler was an American mathematician and computer programmer who specialized in numerical analysis.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 55
- DEF
- 27
- Power
- 82
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 30,000
Power 82 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 25 % of WikiCards cards.
Cleve Moler quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Cleve Moler card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In 1984, he co-founded MathWorks with Jack Little to ______ this program.
Answer
commercialize. In 1984, he co-founded MathWorks with Jack Little to commercialize this program. From the Cleve Moler article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
In the mid to late ____s, he was one of the authors of LINPACK and EISPACK, Fortran libraries for numerical computing.
Answer
1970s. In the mid to late 1970s, he was one of the authors of LINPACK and EISPACK, Fortran libraries for numerical computing. From the Cleve Moler article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Troy Jackson. Troy Jackson 82 · Cleve Moler 55 · Hitomi Soga 52 · Hyman Weisberg 48 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.
- In the mid to late 1970s, he was one of the authors of LINPACK and EISPACK, Fortran libraries for numerical computing.
- He created MATLAB, a numerical computing package, to give his students at the University of New Mexico easy access to these libraries without writing Fortran.
- In 1984, he co-founded MathWorks with Jack Little to commercialize this program.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cleve Moler article was read about 30,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 55 and blocks with 27: each hit it takes is cut by 11 %.
How to get Cleve Moler
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Text : Wikipedia, Cleve Moler (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : MrAlanKoh, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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