Sprouts

Paper and pencil game
SportsTeam mathematical_game Q2141657
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Sprouts

Summary

Sprouts is a mathematical game[1]. Sprouts draws 59 Wikipedia views per month (mathematical_game category, ranking #4 of 8).[2]

Key Facts

  • Sprouts is credited with the discovery of John Horton Conway[3].
  • Sprouts is credited with the discovery of Mike Paterson[4].
  • Sprouts's image is recorded as Sprouts-2spot-game.png[5].
  • Sprouts's instance of is recorded as mathematical game[6].
  • Sprouts's instance of is recorded as paper-and-pencil game[7].
  • Sprouts's item operated is recorded as paper[8].
  • Sprouts's Commons category is recorded as Sprouts (game)[9].
  • Sprouts's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1960-00-00T00:00:00Z[10].
  • Sprouts's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/06vnf[11].
  • Sprouts's studied by is recorded as topology[12].

Body

Works and Contributions

Credited discoveries include John Horton Conway[3], a mathematician[13], 1937–2020[14], of United Kingdom[15], awarded the Fellow of the Royal Society[16], specialised in group theory[17] and Mike Paterson[4], a computer scientist[18], b. 1942[19], of United Kingdom[20], awarded the Fellow of the Royal Society[21], specialised in computer science[22].

Why It Matters

Sprouts draws 59 Wikipedia views per month (mathematical_game category, ranking #4 of 8).[2] Sprouts has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] Sprouts is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [13] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [16] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [17] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [18] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [19] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [20] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [21] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [22] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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