Core rope memory

Core rope memory - read-only memory in which ferrite cores in a rope act merely as transformers, and whether a word line wire couples or not to the core encodes bits; first used in the 1960s by NASA in Mariner probes and in the Apollo Guidance Computer. Article “Core rope memory” in English Wikipedia has 21.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 4 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.13 points.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Core rope memory”, its content was written by 60 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 88 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 88 times in English Wikipedia and cited 156 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #50483 in September 2012
• Global: #120511 in November 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1016 in September 2012
• Global: #4158 in September 2012

There are 6 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Core Rope Memory		29.1126
2	English (en) Core rope memory		21.4345
3	Spanish (es) Memoria de núcleos cableados		12.27
4	Japanese (ja) コアロープメモリ		7.5535
5	Danish (da) Core rope memory		3.3487
6	Korean (ko) 코어로프 메모리		1.7312

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Core rope memory" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Core rope memory		1 120 203
2	Japanese (ja) コアロープメモリ		37 113
3	German (de) Core Rope Memory		31 644
4	Spanish (es) Memoria de núcleos cableados		13 635
5	Danish (da) Core rope memory		618
6	Korean (ko) 코어로프 메모리		523

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Core rope memory" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Core rope memory		4 328
2	German (de) Core Rope Memory		170
3	Japanese (ja) コアロープメモリ		164
4	Spanish (es) Memoria de núcleos cableados		33
5	Korean (ko) 코어로프 메모리		23
6	Danish (da) Core rope memory		4

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Core rope memory" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Core rope memory		60
2	German (de) Core Rope Memory		11
3	Spanish (es) Memoria de núcleos cableados		6
4	Japanese (ja) コアロープメモリ		6
5	Danish (da) Core rope memory		4
6	Korean (ko) 코어로프 메모리		1

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Core rope memory" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Danish (da) Core rope memory		0
2	German (de) Core Rope Memory		0
3	English (en) Core rope memory		0
4	Spanish (es) Memoria de núcleos cableados		0
5	Japanese (ja) コアロープメモリ		0
6	Korean (ko) 코어로프 메모리		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Core rope memory" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Core rope memory		88
2	Korean (ko) 코어로프 메모리		54
3	Japanese (ja) コアロープメモリ		7
4	German (de) Core Rope Memory		5
5	Spanish (es) Memoria de núcleos cableados		2
6	Danish (da) Core rope memory		0

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#	Language	Value
da	Danish Core rope memory
de	German Core Rope Memory
en	English Core rope memory
es	Spanish Memoria de núcleos cableados
ja	Japanese コアロープメモリ
ko	Korean 코어로프 메모리

Best Rank

English: #1016 09.2012

Global: #4158 09.2012

Best Rank

English: #50483 09.2012

Global: #120511 11.2023

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