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Kenneth E. Iverson, an Uncommon card
Kenneth Eugene Iverson was a Canadian computer scientist noted for the development of the programming language APL.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 80
- DEF
- 96
- Power
- 176
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 16,000
Power 176 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Kenneth E. Iverson quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Kenneth E. Iverson card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Hearing aid. Hearing aid 87 · History of modern Greece 83 · Kenneth E. Iverson 80 · Bassel Khartabil 76 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Black Death. Black Death 2,100,000 · Hearing aid 45,000 · History of modern Greece 31,000 · Kenneth E. Iverson 16,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was honored with the Turing Award in 1979 "for his pioneering effort in programming languages and mathematical notation resulting in what the computing field now knows as APL, for his contributions to the implementation of interactive systems, to educational uses of APL, and to programming language theory and practice".
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Kenneth E. Iverson 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 80 and blocks with 96: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Kenneth E. Iverson
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Kenneth E. Iverson (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Rob Hodgkinson, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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