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William Oughtred, a Common card
William Oughtred, also Owtred or Uhtred, was an English mathematician and Anglican clergyman.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 94
- Power
- 171
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 9,800
Power 171 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
William Oughtred quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the William Oughtred card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He also introduced the " × " symbol for multiplication and the ______ " sin " and " cos " for the sine and cosine functions.
Answer
abbreviations. He also introduced the " × " symbol for multiplication and the abbreviations " sin " and " cos " for the sine and cosine functions. From the William Oughtred article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
John Forbes Nash Jr.. John Forbes Nash Jr. 880,000 · Wilhelm Ostwald 25,000 · Leroy Hood 17,000 · William Oughtred 9,800 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- After John Napier discovered logarithms and Edmund Gunter created the logarithmic scales upon which slide rules are based, Oughtred was the first known to use two such scales in separate rods sliding by one another to perform direct multiplication and division.
- He is credited with inventing the slide rule in about 1622, a priority disputed with Richard Delamain, by which Oughtred's innovation is brought forward to c 1632.
- He also introduced the " × " symbol for multiplication and the abbreviations " sin " and " cos " for the sine and cosine functions.
Why it is Common
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Text : Wikipedia, William Oughtred (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Rijksmuseum, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
