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Henry Briggs, a Common card
Henry Briggs was an English mathematician notable for changing the original logarithms invented by John Napier into common logarithms, which are sometimes known as Briggsian logarithms in his honor.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 58
- DEF
- 41
- Power
- 99
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 9,000
Power 99 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Henry Briggs quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Henry Briggs card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Briggs was a committed Puritan and an ______ professor in his time.
Answer
influential. Briggs was a committed Puritan and an influential professor in his time. From the Henry Briggs article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
The specific algorithm for long division in modern use was introduced by Briggs c. ____ AD.
Answer
1600s. The specific algorithm for long division in modern use was introduced by Briggs c. 1600 AD. From the Henry Briggs article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Eugène Dubois. Eugène Dubois 68 · Hillel Furstenberg 62 · Henry Briggs 58 · Armand Guillaumin 54 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.
- The specific algorithm for long division in modern use was introduced by Briggs c. 1600 AD.
- Briggs was a committed Puritan and an influential professor in his time.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Henry Briggs article was read about 9,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 58 and blocks with 41: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Henry Briggs
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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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Henry Briggs (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Henry Briggs by John Faber Jr, after Isaac Seeman mezzotint, 1738, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
