Fasters's definitions

Toilet Pi

When you use the free time while doing your business to practice memorizing the digits of the decimal number π.

As a criterion to joining his local Pi Club, which requires all members to be able to recite the first hundred digits of π, Paul is using his precious toilet pi moments to getting closer to being a pi member.

by Fasters January 12, 2022

Trump as House Speaker

When some morally bankrupt ultra-MAGA lawmakers are entertaining the idea to nominate their ex-Commander in Cheat as the next House Speaker (who doesn’t have to be an elected member of Congress) as days-long bitching, backstabbing, and infighting continue to plague the polarized GOP.

As his politically inept and serially corrupt yes-men and women can’t see eye to eye with the moderates, the Pinocchio-in-Chief is relishing at their far-fetched or idiotic proposal of “Trump as House Speaker.”

by Fasters October 21, 2023

Pi Is All Booked

When teachers and students who want to borrow books on the number π from public or school libraries are told that they had all been lent out, probably because the borrowers needed them for their project or presentation on Pi Day.

When the prime minister asked his secretary to help borrow some math titles on pi for his wife, he’s told that “pi is all booked”—all titles are due after March 14.

by Fasters May 29, 2022

Pi Reverie

A semiconscious state when you allow your creative mind to define a new (or redefine an existing) word or phrase related to the number π—for example, “pi in the sky” carries different meanings depending on the context.

By drifting into a pi reverie, be it by seeing what’s outside the window while pretending to listen to a sermon, or by staring into space or at the cloud in a posture of prayer, Ian has been blessed with a hundred-odd pi definitions on Urban Dictionary.

by Fasters June 17, 2023

Piconomics

When math educators and creatives capitalize on their obsession or perversion of the number π to produce collectibles and mementos, such as pi e-cards, pi-related art or NFTs, and pi jokes, to earn some side income.

Thanks to the metaverse and the blockchain technology, mathepreneurs expect their country’s now-modest piconomics to arouse much public interest in coming years.

by Fasters August 26, 2022

🦠₁₉🇸🇬

Short for “Covid-19 in Singapore.” The “fine” city that has the world’s least ratio of the number of deaths to the number of infections—as of August 23, 2020, there are only 27 deaths from 56,353 infected cases.

If the US and the UK had real political leaders in charge of the pandemic crisis, their 😷 and 💀 statistics could be like those of 🦠₁₉🇸🇬, where a high infection rate needn’t yield a high mortality rate—when deaths aren’t treated as mere digits or statistics.

by Fasters August 23, 2020

Piroscope

The art of predicting someone’s personality based on the number of digits of the number π they remember or have painfully committed to memory, or on a certain fraction or expression they use to approximate the irrational number.

In pseudo-evangelical circles or conspiratorial quarters, it’s not too difficult to match the piroscope sign MAGA patriots belong to.

by Fasters May 26, 2023