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Rare card · Science
Endianness, a Rare card
In computing, endianness is the order in which bytes within a word data type are transmitted over a data communication medium or addressed in computer memory, counting only byte significance.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 58
- Power
- 132
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 320,000
Power 132 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Endianness quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Endianness card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Endianness is primarily ______ as big-endian or little-endian.
Answer
expressed. Endianness is primarily expressed as big-endian or little-endian. From the Endianness article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Yuri Lvov. Yuri Lvov 77 · Endianness 74 · Conservation scientist 69 · Kepler-452b 65 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Endianness. Endianness 320,000 · Conservation scientist 1,700 · Yuri Lvov 930 · List of ambassadors of Sweden to Spain 480 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.
- Endianness is primarily expressed as big-endian or little-endian.
- Computers store information in various-sized groups of binary bits.
- Each group is assigned a number, called its address, that the computer uses to access that data.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Endianness article was read about 320,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 58: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
How to get Endianness
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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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Endianness in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Juliana of the NetherlandsRare · History · ATK 75 DEF 57
- Joe BastianichRare · Society · ATK 67 DEF 65
- Lyudmila PavlichenkoRare · History · ATK 66 DEF 66
- Michael J. SaylorRare · Society · ATK 69 DEF 63
- Douglas FairbanksRare · History · ATK 72 DEF 60
- President of PeruRare · History · ATK 77 DEF 55
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Endianness (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Aeroid, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
