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The mathematical equivalent of “Anti-Mask” or/and “Anti-Vax.” When you refuse to protect yourself against innumeracy or quantitative illiteracy, by failing to learn basic or practical geometry that usually involves the ubiquitous number π, which makes you prone to being conned by mathematical charlatans or unscrupulous sales and marketing folks.
by Fasters January 18, 2022
Get the Anti-Pi mug.A question that could be answered metamathematically, synesthetically, or paranormally by those who are über-sensitive to the five senses normally experienced by the majority of humanity, or maybe by a minority who might be blessed with a sixth or seventh sense.
Could the answer to “What color is pi?” be any of the seven main colors of the rainbow? What are the odds that autistics, schizophrenics, and aspies have differing answers to the metamathematical question?
by Fasters January 18, 2022
Get the What Color Is Pi? mug.A T-shirt with a hole that resembles the shape of the number π—one that is debatably unsuitable to be worn by young girls and women unless they are wearing it over an unholey garment.
Some math geeks plan to wear a π-shirt on Pi Day to make a fashion statement before their peers and teachers.
by Fasters January 20, 2022
Get the π-shirt mug.When both educators and politicians request that mathematicians and math educators relook at the history of their subject and make necessary rewrites so that the study of math doesn’t appear racist or supremacist.
Alt-right Trumpublicans and “fine patriots” are hell-bent to attack anyone who is proposing or promoting any form of woke math or multicultural math in school, which would credit the contributions of non-whites in math and math education.
by Fasters January 21, 2022
Get the Woke Math mug.Gang members who identify themselves with a π tattoo, which piques someone’s curiosity whether their leader was previously a math nerd, whose life had since taken a perilous turn.
Several members of the pi mafia, who were recently arrested for possessing illegal drugs and guns, confessed to having zero clues on the meaning of the tattoo they’re wearing, when questioned by the police.
by Fasters January 22, 2022
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It’s as if traditional Singapore math questions aren’t tough enough for students and their kiasu parents, but now with tuition or enrichment centers terrorizing their students with tiger math toughies in the name of superstition, the Year of the Tiger looks like another mathematical nightmare to those who are already suffering from math anxiety.
by Fasters January 22, 2022
Get the Tiger Math mug.A suggested substitute among geeks for “Anon.”—an abbreviation for “Anonymous”—where the letter X stands for an apparently unknown source.
Guesstimate how many symbol-minded people worldwide would prefer Xnon to Anon., by pretending not to know the source of their plagiarized works.
by Fasters May 13, 2022
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