What a layperson would call a 19-sided polygon or 19-gon rather than an enneadecagon or enneakaidecagon.
A corona math question for geeks: “Show that the interior angle in a regular covidagon is 161¹/₁₉°.”
by Fasters September 17, 2020
When bookmakers worldwide are ever changing the odds that President Trump would be re-elected, based on the good and bad news about him and his morally bankrupt administration, which make the headlines every day.
Thanks to Covid-🎲, with billions of bucks changing hands, tens of millionaires (and thousands of zeronaires) are expected to emerge come November 3.
by Fasters September 18, 2020
When the number π signs checks and creditors decide not to cash them because they have gotten her signature on—when pi’s personality or identity is more valuable than the amount owned.
The pi check shows that a number of people would go for value rather than money, because money doesn’t calculate value, and value is often based on the wider contribution to culture or society.
by Fasters August 25, 2022
What Facebook employees are unofficially being called by fellow geeks, as “the Zuck” shift their attention to the Metaverse or to the world of virtual reality (VR).
Math geeks who are bewitched or mesmerized by what the Metaverse could offer the physical world in coming years or decades have a very high chance of being recruited as Metamates.
by Fasters June 14, 2022
A hands-on educational event for math-anxious students and adults that would offer them some fun non-symbolic things to do on Pi Day—a mathematical equivalent of an anti-Valentine’s Day for singles.
To empathize with tens of thousands of kids who feel left out or alienated on Pi Day, a Singapore NGO is organizing a “Anti-Pi Day” concert to boost their low self-esteem in math.
by Fasters May 22, 2023
A mathematical statement most grades K–2 students would disqualify as being an equation, thus revealing their partial understanding of the meaning of an equals sign, which has different meanings.
What percentage of elementary math students (and their teachers and parents) would claim that statements like 1 + 3 = 2, 3 + 2 = 1, and 2 × 3 = 1 aren’t equations, because the sum or product is incorrect?
by Fasters May 09, 2022
The parity equation few currency manipulators or speculators ever thought would happen in their lifetime—when the American dollar finally caught up with the British pound.
Punsters have been bees-zy since the British economy started heading south, by divining when the pound would achieve parity with the dollar, or by predicting when £1 + £1 = $2 would occur.
by Fasters September 25, 2022