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Uncommon card · Science
Edsger W. Dijkstra, an Uncommon card
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was a Dutch computer scientist, programmer, mathematician, and science essayist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 75
- Power
- 151
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 190,000
Ranked #1,586 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Dijkstra studied mathematics and physics and then theoretical physics at the University of Leiden.
- Adriaan van Wijngaarden offered him a job as the first computer programmer in the Netherlands at the Mathematical Centre in Amsterdam, where he worked from 1952 until 1962.
- He formulated and solved the shortest path problem in 1956, and in 1960 developed the first compiler for the programming language ALGOL 60 in conjunction with colleague Jaap A. Zonneveld.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Edsger W. Dijkstra article was read about 190,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 76 and blocks with 75: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get Edsger W. Dijkstra
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Edsger W. Dijkstra (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Hamilton Richards, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
