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Dead reckoning, an Uncommon card
In navigation, dead reckoning is the process of calculating the current position of a moving object by using a previously determined position, or fix, and incorporating estimates of speed, heading, and elapsed time.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 48
- Power
- 116
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 180,000
Power 116 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Dead reckoning quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Dead reckoning card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
However, inertial navigation systems, which provide very accurate directional ______, use dead reckoning and are very widely applied.
Answer
information. However, inertial navigation systems, which provide very accurate directional information, use dead reckoning and are very widely applied. From the Dead reckoning article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Cache. Cache 71 · Dead reckoning 68 · Arctic Circle 65 · Bulgur 62 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Arctic Circle. Arctic Circle 450,000 · Data 240,000 · Dead reckoning 180,000 · UBE3A-ATS 290 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.
- The corresponding term in biology, to describe the processes by which animals update their estimates of position or heading, is path integration.
- Advances in navigational aids that give accurate information on position, in particular satellite navigation using the Global Positioning System, have made simple dead reckoning by humans obsolete for most purposes.
- However, inertial navigation systems, which provide very accurate directional information, use dead reckoning and are very widely applied.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Dead reckoning article was read about 180,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 68 and blocks with 48: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Dead reckoning
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Dead reckoning (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Belbury, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
