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Uncommon card · Science
Scaling, an Uncommon card
In affine geometry, uniform scaling is a linear transformation that enlarges or shrinks objects by a scale factor that is the same in all directions.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 55
- DEF
- 22
- Power
- 77
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 24,000
Power 77 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 20 % of WikiCards cards.
Scaling quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Scaling card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The result of uniform scaling is similar to the ______.
Answer
original. The result of uniform scaling is similar to the original. From the Scaling article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Scaling. Scaling 55 · Interphase 52 · Venturi mask 46 · Bronze 40 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.
- The result of uniform scaling is similar to the original.
- A scale factor of 1 is normally allowed, so that congruent shapes are also classed as similar.
- Uniform scaling happens, for example, when enlarging or reducing a photograph, or when creating a scale model of a building, car, airplane, etc. More general is scaling with a separate scale factor for each axis direction.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Scaling article was read about 24,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 55 and blocks with 22: each hit it takes is cut by 9 %.
How to get Scaling
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 Scaling in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Hard powerUncommon · History · ATK 53 DEF 24
- BronzeUncommon · Science · ATK 40 DEF 37
- Chlothar IIIUncommon · History · ATK 47 DEF 30
- ClipUncommon · Science · ATK 48 DEF 29
- Diesel cycleUncommon · Science · ATK 54 DEF 23
- InterphaseUncommon · Nature · ATK 52 DEF 25
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- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Scaling (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : TealComet, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
