Fasters's definitions

Catmas

When a cat owner’s Christmas wish is to be able to frequently cuddle their dear pet on their lap, as they don’t normally love to be picked up and carried or held on someone’s lap; or when an oft-stray cat’s wish list for Santa Claus is to sit on someone’s lap, and be loved and fed more frequently.

Rose’s catmas wish for 2022 is to have her British Shorthair cat willingly on her lap more often so that she’d pet or massage her on her favorite body parts.

by Fasters December 18, 2022

Zero Marketing

When food and drink companies leverage on the health consciousness of its customers to claim that their products are free of additives, colorings, and seasonings; or have zero sugar, zero animal fat, and zero monosodium glutamate (MSG), which could cause cancer-prone diseases.

Zero marketing has permeated many businesses and industries: from banks and financial institutions offering zero interest rates or zero downpayment to food manufacturers offering zero cancerous or life-shortening products.

by Fasters May 29, 2021

Compound Poverty

When you condition your mind that there is not enough money rather than there is more than enough, because while growing up, money was scarce, and your parents or loved ones were struggling to make ends meet—when you focus on saving money rather than making money.

Poor people tend to focus on their lack, which over time leads them to develop a compound poverty mindset; wealthy folks look for new streams of income that would yield compound interest by embracing an abundance mindset.

by Fasters February 10, 2023

兀

A Chinese three-stroke character or surname that is pronounced as “wù.” As an adjective, it means rising to a height; towering; flat top; or bald.

What are the chances that a non-Chinese math geek might mistake 兀 for 𝜋?

by Fasters September 25, 2022

Out-of-Order Math

When someone fails to carry out the operations in a math problem correctly, often because they couldn’t remember the rule, or they use their own oft-flawed logic to do so.

John flunked his recent class test, because he’s a victim of out-of-order math—he repeatedly misused the BODMAS rule to simplify arithmetic expressions, and misapplied the procedure to find the inverse of a matrix.

by Fasters January 7, 2023

ZKP

Short for “zero-knowledge proof.” A method used in cryptography to prove ownership of a specific piece of knowledge without revealing the content of that knowledge, thus ensuring that data can be shared without sharing personal information.

Thanks to ZKP, someone can prove a particular fact sans revealing that information, thereby creating the required trust to perform a transaction on the darknet.

by Fasters January 19, 2023

Mathointed

Symbol-minded; enviably mathematical; or abstractly blessed—a happy condition produced by God’s favor on a sinner rather than because they were born or blessed with the “math gene,” which for 99.99% of mathematicians and math educators worldwide is seldom accompanied by academic awards or financial rewards.

If you’re a K–12 math tutor, teacher, editor, or writer, consider yourself already mathointed; or doubly blessed if you’re a polytechnic or university math lecturer or consultant—it’s not so much what you’ve been gifted with, but what you do with it to benefit or bless others.

by Fasters May 3, 2022