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Rare card · Science
Turing machine, a Rare card
A Turing machine is a mathematical model of computation describing an abstract machine that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 77
- Power
- 158
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 350,000
Power 158 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Turing machine quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Turing machine card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Despite the model's simplicity, it is capable of ______ any computer algorithm.
Answer
implementing. Despite the model's simplicity, it is capable of implementing any computer algorithm. From the Turing machine article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Cyrillic script. Cyrillic script 85 · Turing machine 81 · Fei-Fei Li 78 · Information technology 73 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.
- Despite the model's simplicity, it is capable of implementing any computer algorithm.
- The machine operates on an infinite memory tape divided into discrete cells, each of which can hold a single symbol drawn from a finite set of symbols called the alphabet of the machine.
- It has a "head" that, at any point in the machine's operation, is positioned over one of these cells, and a "state" selected from a finite set of states.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Turing machine article was read about 350,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 81 and blocks with 77: each hit it takes is cut by 31 %.
How to get Turing machine
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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- Fei-Fei LiRare · Science · ATK 78 DEF 80
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Turing machine (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Rocky Acosta, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
