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Uncommon card · Science
Gall–Peters projection, an Uncommon card
The Gall–Peters projection is a rectangular, equal-area map projection.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 56
- Power
- 120
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 190,000
Power 120 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Gall–Peters projection quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Gall–Peters projection card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Like all equal-area ______, it distorts most shapes.
Answer
projections. Like all equal-area projections, it distorts most shapes. From the Gall–Peters projection article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Exegesis. Exegesis 71 · Dario Amodei 67 · Gall–Peters projection 64 · Blood orange 61 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Dario Amodei. Dario Amodei 3,300,000 · Summer 240,000 · Gall–Peters projection 190,000 · Exegesis 140,000 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.
- Like all equal-area projections, it distorts most shapes.
- It is a cylindrical equal-area projection with latitudes 45° north and south as the regions on the map that have no distortion.
- The projection is named after Scottish clergyman James Gall and German historian Arno Peters.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gall–Peters projection 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 64 and blocks with 56: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Gall–Peters projection
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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- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Gall–Peters projection (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Strebe, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
