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Thomas Simpson, a Common card
Thomas Simpson FRS was a British mathematician and inventor known for the eponymous Simpson's rule to approximate definite integrals.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 59
- DEF
- 32
- Power
- 91
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 5,700
Power 91 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The attribution, as often in mathematics, can be debated: this rule had been found 100 years earlier by Johannes Kepler, and in German it is called Keplersche Fassregel, or roughly "Kepler's Barrel Rule".
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Thomas Simpson article was read about 5,700 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 32: each hit it takes is cut by 13 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Thomas Simpson (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
