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Epic card · Science
Cloud computing, an Epic card
Cloud computing is defined by the International Organization for Standardization as "a paradigm for enabling network access to a scalable and elastic pool of shareable physical or virtual resources with self-service provisioning and administration on demand".
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 80
- Power
- 161
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 650,000
Ranked #1,713 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Cloud computing quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Cloud computing card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is commonly ______ to as "the cloud".
Answer
referred. It is commonly referred to as "the cloud". From the Cloud computing article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Moment of inertia. Moment of inertia 84 · Cloud computing 81 · Agricultural pollution 77 · Computer hardware 73 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Miriam Adelson. Miriam Adelson 1,100,000 · Cloud computing 650,000 · Moment of inertia 260,000 · Agricultural pollution 15,000 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.
- It is commonly referred to as "the cloud".
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cloud computing article was read about 650,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 81 and blocks with 80: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Cloud computing
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, Cloud computing (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Sam Johnston, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
