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John Hopcroft, an Uncommon card
John Edward Hopcroft is an American theoretical computer scientist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 56
- DEF
- 30
- Power
- 86
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 16,000
Power 86 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
John Hopcroft quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the John Hopcroft card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He and Robert Tarjan won the 1986 ACM ______ Award.
Answer
Turing. He and Robert Tarjan won the 1986 ACM Turing Award. From the John Hopcroft article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Alexei Kasatonov. Alexei Kasatonov 60 · John Hopcroft 56 · Roy Fielding 53 · Dogcart 44 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.
- His textbooks on theory of computation and data structures are regarded as standards in their fields.
- He is a professor emeritus at Cornell University, co-director of the Center on Frontiers of Computing Studies at Peking University, the director of the John Hopcroft Center for Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Hopcroft Center on Computer Science at Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
- He and Robert Tarjan won the 1986 ACM Turing Award.
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 Hopcroft article was read about 16,000 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 30: each hit it takes is cut by 12 %.
How to get John Hopcroft
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The cards just above and just below John Hopcroft in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Alexei KasatonovUncommon · Society · ATK 60 DEF 26
- Clara CampoamorUncommon · History · ATK 58 DEF 28
- DogcartUncommon · Science · ATK 44 DEF 42
- KanangaUncommon · Society · ATK 59 DEF 27
- Mustafa MahmoudUncommon · Arts · ATK 56 DEF 30
- National Highway 30Uncommon · Society · ATK 52 DEF 34
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, John Hopcroft (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Pavel.mavrin, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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