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George Laurer, a Common card
George Joseph Laurer III was an American engineer for IBM at Research Triangle Park in North Carolina.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 55
- DEF
- 45
- Power
- 100
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 5,600
Power 100 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He published 20 bulletins, held 28 patents and developed the Universal Product Code in the early 1970s.
- He devised the coding and pattern used for the UPC, based on Joe Woodland's more general idea for barcodes.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The George Laurer article was read about 5,600 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 55 and blocks with 45: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get George Laurer
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, George Laurer (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : The original uploader was PhilFree at French Wikipedia ., CC BY 1.0, Wikimedia Commons.
