Definitions by Fasters
Pi NFTs
When non-fungible token (NFT) creators produce digital goods that leverage on the number π—mathematics’s most famous or beloved constant—to target millions of math educators and geeks worldwide, who value true ownership, trust, and transparency of digital assets—from π e-cards and jokes to newly coined π-related words and phrases to π (temporary) tattoos and websites.
Crypto investors, some of whom had even flunked their school math, are eager to own a piece of “mathematical immortality” via pi NFTs.
Garfield Math
Doing math from a cat’s standpoint, or with the least effort. When a creative but lazy person is always on the lookout for a shortcut or hack to solve a math problem, so that they could have more time for leisure or rest.
Street-smart people tend to use Garfield math strategies to deal with their everyday quantitative challenges, compared to their exam-smart counterparts who prefer a more conventional or routine approach.
Garfield Math by Fasters February 6, 2022
Zombie Math Titles
Out-of-print math titles whose covers, contents, or creators the present generation could still remember, because when they were students, teachers, or parents, these wallet-friendly, brain-unfriendly books had positively impacted their mathematical learning or teaching, which were unsurprisingly bestsellers of their day.
Singapore’s zombie math titles of yesteryear like Fabian Ng’s “Process Skills in Problem Solving,” Dr Y H Leong’s “Challenging Problems in Mathematics,” and K C Yan’s “Mathematical Quickies & Trickies” had not only differentiated themselves from the sea of canned drill-and-kill titles, but they have since become an integral part of the local math education culture.
Zombie Math Titles by Fasters February 5, 2022
Pi Paradox
When promiscuously extrapolating or generalizing a math formula, or misusing an infinity concept, in some step of a mathematical proof leads to a contradictory or nonsensical result about the number pi, such as π = 2 or π = 666.
Poking fun at prideful or pseudo-geeky math students to explain a pi paradox is a subtle way to humble their egos in exposing their oft-half-baked understanding of mathematical concepts.
Pi Paradox by Fasters February 4, 2022
Pi Reincarnation
When the number π has undergone many transformations over the centuries from being merely associated to a circle to identifying itself with infinite series, the bell curve, and even the possible communication with extraterrestrials—from geometry and trigonometry to statistics and probability to infinity and astronomy.
Pi Reincarnation by Fasters February 2, 2022
Piccinated
When someone has accidentally been jabbed with a dosage that is almost π times the recommended value.
An 80-year-old immunocompromised patient—who has been in ICU for over a week—was found to have been piccinated by a pro-Trump anti-vax nurse, who apparently misread the figures on the label.
Piccinated by Fasters January 30, 2022
Pi Posture
When you meditate on the number π through all five senses, by disconnecting from the use of all technology with screens—only a pen and paper allowed, if need be—in the hope of experiencing an aha!
Going barefoot, being naked or/and blindfolded, and wearing a mask are some recommended frames of mind for those who are serious enough to put themselves in a pi posture.
Pi Posture by Fasters January 30, 2022