Language Card : english

Creation Date : 3 November 2014

Pokemon Passport

Name : Jerome Cardan

Serie : Diamond & Pearl - Pokémon LV.X

Type : Metal

Attack 1 : Probability
Flip a coin. If heads, opponents attack is only 75% effective if tails, attack ineffective. Jerome formulated a number of probability principles more then century before Pascal and Fermat.

Attack 2 : Heal
Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokemon is now Paralyzed. Tails Cardan is at full health.

Comments : Jerome Cardan (1501-1574) also had advances in algebra including numbers less then 0, cubic/quadratic equations, and binomial theorem/coefficients. Jerome Studied medicine at Pavia, was hard to work with because of his confrontational attitude but developed a reputation as a physician notably as first to describe typhoid fever as well as curing the Archbishop of St. Andrews of disease believed incurable.

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