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William Kahan, a Common card
William "Velvel" Morton Kahan is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, who is a professor emeritus at University of California, Berkeley.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 53
- DEF
- 27
- Power
- 80
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 14,000
Power 80 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 25 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He received the Turing Award in 1989 for "his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis."
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The William Kahan 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 53 and blocks with 27: each hit it takes is cut by 11 %.
How to get William Kahan
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, William Kahan (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : George Bergman, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
