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Uncommon card · Science
John Alan Robinson, an Uncommon card
John Alan Robinson was a philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 57
- DEF
- 30
- Power
- 87
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 99,000
Power 87 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
John Alan Robinson quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the John Alan Robinson card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was a ______ emeritus at Syracuse University.
Answer
professor. He was a professor emeritus at Syracuse University. From the John Alan Robinson article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
John Alan Robinson. John Alan Robinson 57 · COX7A2 47 · OSBPL1A 44 · SSH3 41 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
John Alan Robinson. John Alan Robinson 99,000 · Public 60,000 · SSH3 330 · OSBPL1A 250 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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 was a professor emeritus at Syracuse University.
- Alan Robinson's major contribution is to the foundations of automated theorem proving.
- His unification algorithm eliminated one source of combinatorial explosion in resolution provers, it also prepared the ground for the logic programming paradigm, in particular for the Prolog language.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The John Alan Robinson article was read about 99,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 57 and blocks with 30: each hit it takes is cut by 12 %.
How to get John Alan Robinson
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, John Alan Robinson (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : David Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
