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Seymour Cray, an Uncommon card
Seymour Roger Cray was an American electrical engineer, computer scientist, mathematician, and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research, which built many of these machines.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 70
- DEF
- 63
- Power
- 133
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 63,000
Power 133 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Seymour Cray quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Seymour Cray card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Called "the father of ______", Cray has been credited with creating the supercomputer industry.
Answer
supercomputing. Called "the father of supercomputing", Cray has been credited with creating the supercomputer industry. From the Seymour Cray article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Betting in poker. Betting in poker 82 · Pharmacokinetics 74 · Seymour Cray 70 · Canes Venatici 67 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.
- Called "the father of supercomputing", Cray has been credited with creating the supercomputer industry.
- Joel S. Birnbaum, then chief technology officer of Hewlett-Packard, said of him: "It seems impossible to exaggerate the effect he had on the industry, many of the things that high performance computers now do routinely were at the farthest edge of credibility when Seymour envisioned them." Larry Smarr, then director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of…
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Seymour Cray article was read about 63,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 70 and blocks with 63: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Seymour Cray (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
