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Edge of chaos, an Uncommon card
The edge of chaos is a transition space between order and disorder that is hypothesized to exist within a wide variety of systems.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 61
- DEF
- 47
- Power
- 108
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 20,000
Power 108 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Edge of chaos quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Edge of chaos card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Physicists have shown that ______ to the edge of chaos occurs in almost all systems with feedback.
Answer
adaptation. Physicists have shown that adaptation to the edge of chaos occurs in almost all systems with feedback. From the Edge of chaos article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Branches of physics. Branches of physics 83,000 · Energy level 48,000 · Dynamical systems theory 27,000 · Edge of chaos 20,000 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.
- This transition zone is a region of bounded instability that engenders a constant dynamic interplay between order and disorder.
- Even though the idea of the edge of chaos is an abstract one, it has many applications in such fields as ecology, business management, psychology, political science, and other domains of the social sciences.
- Physicists have shown that adaptation to the edge of chaos occurs in almost all systems with feedback.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Edge of chaos 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 47: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Edge of chaos
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Edge of chaos (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Hans Braxmeier, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
