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Donald Knuth, a Rare card
Donald Ervin Knuth is an American computer scientist and mathematician.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 80
- Power
- 161
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 230,000
Power 161 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is a professor emeritus at Stanford University.
- He is the 1974 recipient of the ACM Turing Award, informally considered the Nobel Prize of computer science.
- Knuth has been called the "father of the analysis of algorithms".
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Donald Knuth article was read about 230,000 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 Donald Knuth
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Donald Knuth (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Alex Handy, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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