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Uncommon card · Science
Ralph Merkle, an Uncommon card
Ralph C. Merkle is an American computer scientist and mathematician.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 59
- DEF
- 48
- Power
- 107
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 23,000
Power 107 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Ralph Merkle quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ralph Merkle card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He has worked as a manager at Elxsi, research scientist at Xerox PARC, and a ______ theorist at Zyvex.
Answer
nanotechnology. He has worked as a manager at Elxsi, research scientist at Xerox PARC, and a nanotechnology theorist at Zyvex. From the Ralph Merkle article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Cognitivism. Cognitivism 65 · Pierre Bayle 62 · Ralph Merkle 59 · Hydrogen bromide 56 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 one of the inventors of public-key cryptography, the inventor of cryptographic hashing, and more recently a researcher and speaker on cryonics.
- Merkle is a renowned cryptographer, known for devising Merkle's Puzzles, co-inventing the Merkle–Hellman knapsack cryptosystem, and inventing cryptographic hashing and Merkle trees.
- He has worked as a manager at Elxsi, research scientist at Xerox PARC, and a nanotechnology theorist at Zyvex.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ralph Merkle 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 59 and blocks with 48: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Ralph Merkle
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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The cards just above and just below Ralph Merkle in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Orderic VitalisUncommon · Society · ATK 65 DEF 42
- Pierre BayleUncommon · Science · ATK 62 DEF 45
- Rabanus MaurusUncommon · Arts · ATK 62 DEF 45
- Ritchey–Chrétien telescopeUncommon · Science · ATK 62 DEF 45
- Talant DujshebaevUncommon · Society · ATK 64 DEF 43
- Ahmed Mohamed IslamUncommon · History · ATK 63 DEF 44
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ralph Merkle (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : david.orban, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
