The Sand Reckoner

The Sand Reckoner - work by Archimedes. This book is the 7098^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “The Sand Reckoner” in English Wikipedia has 29.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.56 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “The Sand Reckoner” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Sand Reckoner”, its content was written by 107 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 283 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Sand Reckoner is on the 7098^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 212 times in English Wikipedia and cited 768 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #13206 in July 2003
• Global: #22593 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #165199 in September 2016
• Global: #230483 in September 2016

There are 18 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, 2025 (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	Finnish (fi) Hiekanlaskija		43.5256
2	German (de) Der Sandrechner		38.0566
3	Chinese (zh) 数沙者		32.3417
4	English (en) The Sand Reckoner		29.6648
5	Japanese (ja) 砂粒を数えるもの		28.8641
6	Catalan (ca) L'Arenari		18.4921
7	Korean (ko) 모래알을 세는 사람		17.6254
8	Greek (el) Ψαμμίτης (Αρχιμήδης)		16.872
9	French (fr) L'Arénaire		15.6244
10	Dutch (nl) De zandrekenaar		15.5723

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

The most popular language versions of the article "The Sand Reckoner" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Sand Reckoner		431 618
2	Spanish (es) El contador de arena		80 052
3	Russian (ru) Псаммит		52 769
4	Japanese (ja) 砂粒を数えるもの		44 189
5	Greek (el) Ψαμμίτης (Αρχιμήδης)		33 975
6	French (fr) L'Arénaire		33 599
7	Portuguese (pt) O Contador de Areia		21 024
8	Korean (ko) 모래알을 세는 사람		13 635
9	Dutch (nl) De zandrekenaar		11 395
10	Romanian (ro) Calculul Firelor de Nisip		6 176

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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 "The Sand Reckoner" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Sand Reckoner		2 207
2	Japanese (ja) 砂粒を数えるもの		540
3	Spanish (es) El contador de arena		197
4	German (de) Der Sandrechner		193
5	French (fr) L'Arénaire		144
6	Russian (ru) Псаммит		129
7	Chinese (zh) 数沙者		82
8	Greek (el) Ψαμμίτης (Αρχιμήδης)		72
9	Korean (ko) 모래알을 세는 사람		68
10	Portuguese (pt) O Contador de Areia		61

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

Language versions of the article "The Sand Reckoner" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Sand Reckoner		107
2	Russian (ru) Псаммит		29
3	French (fr) L'Arénaire		23
4	Greek (el) Ψαμμίτης (Αρχιμήδης)		22
5	Dutch (nl) De zandrekenaar		21
6	Spanish (es) El contador de arena		17
7	Catalan (ca) L'Arenari		12
8	German (de) Der Sandrechner		12
9	Portuguese (pt) O Contador de Areia		8
10	Japanese (ja) 砂粒を数えるもの		6

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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 "The Sand Reckoner" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Sand Reckoner		2
2	Finnish (fi) Hiekanlaskija		1
3	Italian (it) Arenario		1
4	Japanese (ja) 砂粒を数えるもの		1
5	Arabic (ar) حاسب الرمل		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Преброителят на пясък		0
7	Catalan (ca) L'Arenari		0
8	German (de) Der Sandrechner		0
9	Greek (el) Ψαμμίτης (Αρχιμήδης)		0
10	Spanish (es) El contador de arena		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 "The Sand Reckoner" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Sand Reckoner		212
2	Greek (el) Ψαμμίτης (Αρχιμήδης)		174
3	French (fr) L'Arénaire		98
4	Catalan (ca) L'Arenari		88
5	Portuguese (pt) O Contador de Areia		58
6	Russian (ru) Псаммит		38
7	Arabic (ar) حاسب الرمل		23
8	Spanish (es) El contador de arena		11
9	Korean (ko) 모래알을 세는 사람		11
10	German (de) Der Sandrechner		10

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic حاسب الرمل
bg	Bulgarian Преброителят на пясък
ca	Catalan L'Arenari
de	German Der Sandrechner
el	Greek Ψαμμίτης (Αρχιμήδης)
en	English The Sand Reckoner
es	Spanish El contador de arena
fi	Finnish Hiekanlaskija
fr	French L'Arénaire
id	Indonesian The Sand Reckoner
it	Italian Arenario
ja	Japanese 砂粒を数えるもの
ko	Korean 모래알을 세는 사람
nl	Dutch De zandrekenaar
pt	Portuguese O Contador de Areia
ro	Romanian Calculul Firelor de Nisip
ru	Russian Псаммит
zh	Chinese 数沙者

Best Rank

English: #165199 09.2016

Global: #230483 09.2016

Best Rank

English: #13206 07.2003

Global: #22593 07.2003

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