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Elliptic curve, an Uncommon card
In mathematics, an elliptic curve is a smooth, projective, algebraic curve of genus one, on which there is a specified point O. An elliptic curve is defined over a field K and describes points in K2, the Cartesian product of K with itself.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 67
- Power
- 144
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 120,000
Power 144 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Elliptic curve quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Elliptic curve card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Many sources define an elliptic curve to be simply a curve given by an ______ of this form.
Answer
equation. Many sources define an elliptic curve to be simply a curve given by an equation of this form. From the Elliptic curve article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Cooling tower. Cooling tower 81 · Elliptic curve 77 · Brine 73 · Feldspar 67 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.
- If the field's characteristic is different from 2 and 3, then the curve can be described as a plane algebraic curve which consists of solutions for: y 2 = x 3 + a x + b for some coefficients a and b in K. The curve is required to be non-singular, which means that the curve has no cusps or self-intersections.
- It is usually understood that the curve is embedded in the projective plane, with the point O being the unique point at infinity.
- Many sources define an elliptic curve to be simply a curve given by an equation of this form.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Elliptic curve article was read about 120,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 67: each hit it takes is cut by 27 %.
How to get Elliptic curve
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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The cards just above and just below Elliptic curve in the power ranking, all domains together.
- AhmednagarUncommon · Society · ATK 72 DEF 72
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- Alla NazimovaUncommon · Arts · ATK 71 DEF 73
- Cooling towerUncommon · Science · ATK 81 DEF 63
- DragUncommon · Science · ATK 74 DEF 70
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Elliptic curve (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Tos, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
