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Uncommon card · Science
Plain text, an Uncommon card
In computing, plain text is a loose term for unformatted text or nontextual data represented as text using printable characters in a character encoding.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 50
- DEF
- 14
- Power
- 64
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 52,000
Power 64 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 10 % of WikiCards cards.
Plain text quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Plain text card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In ______, plain text can be in any encoding, but today usually implies UTF-8.
Answer
principle. In principle, plain text can be in any encoding, but today usually implies UTF-8. From the Plain text article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Plain text. Plain text 50 · Viktor Schauberger 47 · Beta-pyrazolylalanine synthase 41 · Thomas Nicol Johnston 38 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Plain text. Plain text 52,000 · Viktor Schauberger 30,000 · Thomas Nicol Johnston 160 · Thetin-homocysteine S-methyltransferase 110 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.
- In principle, plain text can be in any encoding, but today usually implies UTF-8.
- Plain text is different from formatted text, where style information is included, from structured text, where structural parts of the document such as paragraphs, sections, and the like are identified, and from binary files in which some portions must be interpreted as binary objects.
- Plain text is often used as a counterpiece to "binary" files: those in which at least some parts of the file cannot be correctly interpreted as text.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Plain text article was read about 52,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 50 and blocks with 14: each hit it takes is cut by 6 %.
How to get Plain text
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 Plain text in the power ranking, all domains together.
- EscarpmentUncommon · Nature · ATK 43 DEF 21
- Pathfinder BadgeUncommon · History · ATK 44 DEF 20
- Gilberto MoraUncommon · Society · ATK 64 DEF 0
- Willie HallUncommon · Arts · ATK 51 DEF 13
- Soul patchUncommon · Science · ATK 40 DEF 24
- Worry stoneUncommon · History · ATK 40 DEF 24
Card lists
- Wikipedia quizNew questions every day
- All cards from A to ZEvery card, by name
- Science cards
- Legendary cards
- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Plain text (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : User:Rursus, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
