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Uncommon card · Science
John Napier, an Uncommon card
John Napier of Merchiston, nicknamed Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist and astronomer.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 73
- Power
- 144
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 91,000
Power 144 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was the 8th Laird of Merchiston.
- Napier is best known as the discoverer of logarithms.
- He also invented the Napier's bones calculating device and popularised the use of the decimal point in arithmetic.
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 Napier article was read about 91,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 73: each hit it takes is cut by 29 %.
How to get John Napier
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, John Napier (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
