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Uncommon card · Nature
Koch snowflake, an Uncommon card
The Koch snowflake (also known as the Koch curve, Koch star, or Koch island is a fractal curve and one of the earliest fractals to have been described.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 63
- Power
- 130
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Power 130 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Koch snowflake quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Koch snowflake card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The Koch snowflake can be built up iteratively, in a ______ of stages.
Answer
sequence. The Koch snowflake can be built up iteratively, in a sequence of stages. From the Koch snowflake article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
It is based on the Koch curve, which appeared in a ____ paper titled "On a Continuous Curve Without Tangents, Constructible from Elementary Geometry" by the Swedish mathematician Helge von Koch.
Answer
1900s. It is based on the Koch curve, which appeared in a 1904 paper titled "On a Continuous Curve Without Tangents, Constructible from Elementary Geometry" by the Swedish mathematician Helge von Koch. From the Koch snowflake article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Lesser Antilles. Lesser Antilles 220,000 · Apiaceae 150,000 · Koch snowflake 110,000 · Chuuk State 75,000 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.
- It is based on the Koch curve, which appeared in a 1904 paper titled "On a Continuous Curve Without Tangents, Constructible from Elementary Geometry" by the Swedish mathematician Helge von Koch.
- The Koch snowflake can be built up iteratively, in a sequence of stages.
- The first stage is an equilateral triangle, and each successive stage is formed by adding outward bends to each side of the previous stage, making smaller equilateral triangles.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Koch snowflake article was read about 110,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 63: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
How to get Koch snowflake
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Koch snowflake (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Wrtlprnft, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
