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Uncommon card · Science
Parabola, an Uncommon card
In mathematics, a parabola is a plane curve which is mirror-symmetrical and is approximately U-shaped.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 83
- DEF
- 68
- Power
- 151
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 190,000
Power 151 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Parabola quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Parabola card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The focus does not lie on the ______.
Answer
directrix. The focus does not lie on the directrix. From the Parabola article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Parabola. Parabola 83 · Printed circuit board 78 · Asclepias 75 · Camphor 72 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.
- It fits several superficially different mathematical descriptions, which can all be proved to define exactly the same curves.
- One description of a parabola involves a point and a line.
- The focus does not lie on the directrix.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Parabola article was read about 190,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 83 and blocks with 68: each hit it takes is cut by 27 %.
How to get Parabola
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.
More Science cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Parabola in the power ranking, all domains together.
- AvalancheUncommon · Nature · ATK 80 DEF 71
- Edsger W. DijkstraUncommon · Science · ATK 76 DEF 75
- John Logie BairdUncommon · Science · ATK 72 DEF 79
- AsclepiasUncommon · Nature · ATK 75 DEF 76
- Casimir effectUncommon · Science · ATK 80 DEF 71
- Eugène DelacroixUncommon · Arts · ATK 75 DEF 76
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Parabola (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Melikamp, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
