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Mark Adler, an Uncommon card
Mark Adler is an American software engineer. He is best known for his work in the field of data compression as the author of the Adler-32 checksum function, and a co-author, together with Jean-Loup Gailly, of the zlib compression library and gzip.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 52
- DEF
- 38
- Power
- 90
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 23,000
Power 90 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
Mark Adler quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Mark Adler card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Adler was also the ______ Cruise Mission Manager for the Mars Exploration Rover mission.
Answer
Spirit. Adler was also the Spirit Cruise Mission Manager for the Mars Exploration Rover mission. From the Mark Adler article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Luciano Floridi. Luciano Floridi 64 · Matthias Jakob Schleiden 58 · Ludvig Nobel 55 · Mark Adler 52 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 has contributed to Info-ZIP, and has participated in developing the Portable Network Graphics image format.
- Adler was also the Spirit Cruise Mission Manager for the Mars Exploration Rover mission.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Mark Adler article was read about 23,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 52 and blocks with 38: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
How to get Mark Adler
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Mark Adler (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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