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Lenore Blum, a Common card
Lenore Carol Blum is an American computer scientist and mathematician who has made contributions to the theories of real number computation, cryptography, and pseudorandom number generation.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 49
- Power
- 113
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 10,000
Power 113 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Lenore Blum quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Lenore Blum card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
She is also known for her ______ to increase diversity in mathematics and computer science.
Answer
efforts. She is also known for her efforts to increase diversity in mathematics and computer science. From the Lenore Blum article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
She was a distinguished career professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University until ____ and is currently a professor in residence at the University of California, Berkeley.
Answer
2010s. She was a distinguished career professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University until 2019 and is currently a professor in residence at the University of California, Berkeley. From the Lenore Blum article on Wikipedia.
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.
- She was a distinguished career professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University until 2019 and is currently a professor in residence at the University of California, Berkeley.
- She is also known for her efforts to increase diversity in mathematics and computer science.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Lenore Blum article was read about 10,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 49: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Lenore Blum (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : George Bergman, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
