Girard Desargues, a Common card

Girard Desargues was a French mathematician and engineer, who is considered one of the founders of projective geometry.
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Rarity: Common
Domain: Science
ATK: 49
DEF: 23
Power: 72
Wikipedia reads a year: 5,500

Power 72 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 15 % of WikiCards cards.

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Desargues's theorem, the Desargues graph, and the crater Desargues on the Moon are named in his honour.

Why it is Common

Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Girard Desargues article was read about 5,500 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 49 and blocks with 23: each hit it takes is cut by 9 %.

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Text : Wikipedia, Girard Desargues (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Théobald Chartran, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.