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Marin Mersenne, an Uncommon card
Marin Mersenne, OM was a French polymath whose works touched a wide variety of fields.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 46
- Power
- 113
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 30,000
Power 113 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Marin Mersenne quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Marin Mersenne card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He is perhaps best known today among ______ for Mersenne prime numbers, those written in the form Mn = 2n − 1 for some integer n.
Answer
mathematicians. He is perhaps best known today among mathematicians for Mersenne prime numbers, those written in the form Mn = 2n − 1 for some integer n. From the Marin Mersenne article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Marin Mersenne. Marin Mersenne 67 · Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland 64 · Uniform 61 · Armeria maritima 58 ATK in WikiCards.
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.
- He is perhaps best known today among mathematicians for Mersenne prime numbers, those written in the form Mn = 2n − 1 for some integer n.
- He also developed Mersenne's laws, which describe the harmonics of a vibrating string, and his seminal work on music theory, Harmonie universelle, for which he is referred to as the "father of acoustics".
- Mersenne, an ordained Catholic priest, had many contacts in the scientific world and has been called "the center of the world of science and mathematics during the first half of the 1600s" and, because of his ability to make connections between people and ideas, "the post-box of Europe".
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Marin Mersenne article was read about 30,000 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 46: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Marin Mersenne
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- Maritime flagUncommon · History · ATK 64 DEF 49
- Nikhat ZareenUncommon · Society · ATK 68 DEF 45
- Armeria maritimaUncommon · Nature · ATK 58 DEF 55
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Marin Mersenne (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Claude Duflos, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
