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Uncommon card · Science
Dana Scott, an Uncommon card
Dana Stewart Scott is a retired American logician.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 61
- DEF
- 28
- Power
- 89
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 20,000
Power 89 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
Dana Scott quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Dana Scott card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Along with Michael O. Rabin he ______ the 1976 ACM Turing Award for their joint work on automata theory.
Answer
received. Along with Michael O. Rabin he received the 1976 ACM Turing Award for their joint work on automata theory. From the Dana Scott article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Dana Scott. Dana Scott 61 · William M. Bass 58 · Josh Blackman 55 · Lateral pterygoid muscle 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.
- Along with Michael O. Rabin he received the 1976 ACM Turing Award for their joint work on automata theory.
- He has made seminal contributions to automata theory, modal logic, set theory, and the theory of programming languages.
- He created domain theory, a branch of mathematics that provides a foundation for the theory of programming languages and computability.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Dana Scott article was read about 20,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 61 and blocks with 28: each hit it takes is cut by 11 %.
How to get Dana Scott
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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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Dana Scott in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Lateral pterygoid muscleUncommon · Science · ATK 48 DEF 41
- Prune plumUncommon · Nature · ATK 48 DEF 41
- Commissioner of the Hyderabad City PoliceUncommon · Society · ATK 58 DEF 31
- Erma WerkeUncommon · History · ATK 54 DEF 35
- Josh BlackmanUncommon · Science · ATK 55 DEF 34
- Montreat, North CarolinaUncommon · Society · ATK 56 DEF 33
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Dana Scott (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Logos Semantikos, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
