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W. J. M. Rankine, a Common card
William John Macquorn Rankine was a Scottish mathematician and physicist.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 50
- Power
- 116
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 14,000
Power 116 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson, to the science of thermodynamics, particularly focusing on its First Law.
- He developed the Rankine scale, a Fahrenheit-based equivalent to the Celsius-based Kelvin scale of temperature.
- Rankine developed a complete theory of the steam engine and indeed of all heat engines.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The W. J. M. Rankine article was read about 14,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 50: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get W. J. M. Rankine
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, W. J. M. Rankine (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Thomas Annan / Adam Cuerden, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
