Fasters's definitions

Pimageddon

When the last battle between good and evil prior to the Judgement Day would take place could hypothetically or unprovenly be divined from the digits of the decimal number π.

Both number theorists and biblical numerologists are hell-bent to figuring out the D-day for Pimageddon—who would be the pi futurist who stubbornly claimed to be able to predict Christ’s Second Coming, Who had already forewarned his followers that He would return to earth like a thief?

by Fasters December 30, 2021

Is Pi Catholic or Protestant?

When theomaticians and philosophers couldn’t see eye to eye based on the number π’s oft-conflicting or mixed interactions with other numbers or constants whether her allegiance is with the Vatican or with the Church of England.

Does π subscribe to the Pope’s or to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s theomatical teachings on how rational and irrational numbers ought to behave themselves in private and in public? Is pi Catholic or Protestant?

by Fasters December 1, 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.

by Fasters February 5, 2022

Santa’s Funeral

When someone dies on Christmas Eve and their funeral is a Christmas party for relatives and friends to recount and reminisce about the deceased’s selfless contributions and achievements to humanity on this side of eternity.

At Santa’s funeral, the children and grandchildren are secretly contemplating what the old man’s will has allocated for them.

by Fasters December 22, 2021

Bloody Pi

When a postmodern artist uses their own blood or the blood of animals as paint to draw the irrational number π, or to take part in a pi project as part of a math-and-art exhibition.

An artist from the Philippines told the journalist who interviewed him that his bloody pi paintings, which symbolizes his DNA in art, aren't for sale, but the public could view them at his private gallery.

by Fasters December 22, 2022

🐓 π

Short for “Chicken Pi.” A mathematical rebus that sounds like “chicken pie.”

At a KFC outlet in the “fine” city of Singapore, passers-by could spot the silhouette of a chicken and a π-like symbol meters apart. What are the chances that someone would interpret these two figures as 🐓 π?

by Fasters May 23, 2023

1 = 2

The equation of choice among math paradoxers and recreational mathematicians, who unspokenly derive much satisfaction in exposing students’ fallacious or illogical reasoning that leads to the contradictory result.

Be it due to division by zero or squaring (or square rooting) both sides of an equation, few students wouldn’t want to know why “1 = 2” is logically plausible.

by Fasters May 3, 2022