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Jacob Ziv, a Common card
Jacob Ziv was an Israeli electrical engineer and information theorist who developed the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms alongside Abraham Lempel.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 56
- DEF
- 33
- Power
- 89
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 7,100
Power 89 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
Jacob Ziv quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Jacob Ziv card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He is also a ______ of the Ziv–Zakai bound in estimation theory, with Moshe Zakai.
Answer
namesake. He is also a namesake of the Ziv–Zakai bound in estimation theory, with Moshe Zakai. From the Jacob Ziv article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Erki Nool. Erki Nool 62 · Jacob Ziv 56 · Rashid Nurgaliyev 53 · Tomb of Zechariah 48 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.
- He is also a namesake of the Ziv–Zakai bound in estimation theory, with Moshe Zakai.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Jacob Ziv article was read about 7,100 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 56 and blocks with 33: each hit it takes is cut by 13 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Jacob Ziv (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : he:User:חישוביות, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
