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Uncommon card · Science
Rob Pike, an Uncommon card
Robert Pike is a Canadian programmer and author.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 52
- DEF
- 34
- Power
- 86
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 88,000
Power 86 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
Rob Pike quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Rob Pike card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Pike wrote the first ______ system for Unix in 1981.
Answer
window. Pike wrote the first window system for Unix in 1981. From the Rob Pike article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Black–Scholes equation. Black–Scholes equation 61 · Eduard Bloch 56 · Rob Pike 52 · DUSP12 45 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Eduard Bloch. Eduard Bloch 120,000 · Rob Pike 88,000 · Inflection point 69,000 · RDH5 260 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.
- He is best known for his work on the Go programming language while working at Google and the Plan 9 operating system while working at Bell Labs, where he was a member of the Unix team.
- Pike wrote the first window system for Unix in 1981.
- He is the sole inventor named in a US patent for overlapping windows on a computer display.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Rob Pike article was read about 88,000 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 34: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
How to get Rob Pike
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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Rob Pike in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Eduard BlochUncommon · Science · ATK 56 DEF 30
- EmbolismUncommon · Science · ATK 54 DEF 32
- Raoul BovaUncommon · Arts · ATK 59 DEF 27
- Black–Scholes equationUncommon · Science · ATK 61 DEF 25
- Your AI Slop Bores MeUncommon · Arts · ATK 49 DEF 37
- 2016 NHL Stadium SeriesUncommon · Society · ATK 61 DEF 25
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Rob Pike (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Kevin Shockey, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
