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John Vincent Atanasoff, an Uncommon card
John Vincent Atanasoff was an American physicist and inventor credited with inventing the first electronic digital computer.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 70
- DEF
- 65
- Power
- 135
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 35,000
Power 135 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
John Vincent Atanasoff quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the John Vincent Atanasoff card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Challenges to his claim were resolved in 1973 when the ______ v.
Answer
Honeywell. Challenges to his claim were resolved in 1973 when the Honeywell v. From the John Vincent Atanasoff article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Atanasoff invented the first electronic digital computer in the ____s at Iowa State College.
Answer
1930s. Atanasoff invented the first electronic digital computer in the 1930s at Iowa State College. From the John Vincent Atanasoff article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Amateur boxing. Amateur boxing 57,000 · John Vincent Atanasoff 35,000 · Elliot Aronson 16,000 · Cartographic generalization 7,700 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.
- Atanasoff invented the first electronic digital computer in the 1930s at Iowa State College.
- Challenges to his claim were resolved in 1973 when the Honeywell v.
- Sperry Rand lawsuit ruled that Atanasoff was the inventor of the computer.
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 Vincent Atanasoff article was read about 35,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 70 and blocks with 65: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, John Vincent Atanasoff (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Eye Steel Film from Canada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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