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Uncommon card · Science
Hipparchus, an Uncommon card
Hipparchus was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 84
- DEF
- 75
- Power
- 159
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 68,000
Power 159 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is considered the founder of trigonometry, but is most famous for his incidental discovery of the precession of the equinoxes.
- Hipparchus was born in Nicaea, Bithynia, and probably died on the island of Rhodes, Greece.
- He is known to have been a working astronomer between 162 and 127 BC.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Hipparchus article was read about 68,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 84 and blocks with 75: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get Hipparchus
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, Hipparchus (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : William Henry Smyth, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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