Fasters's definitions

Busy

The disease of the 21st century that causes stress, insomnia, and cancer; or the appearance of being so to remain on the payroll.

Busy Singaporeans are like rush-ians, who’re perpetually at war against time.

by Fasters March 9, 2023

Mathematical Heresy

The myth that you can do (almost) everything with math, or that being good at math or logic is a secure ticket to financial freedom, which is absolute bull if you look at the millions of exam-smart or geeky people who love math and have excelled in the subject, yet could hardly make ends meet.

Let not mathematical heresy blind you, because your love for numbers and their relationships more often than not doesn’t pay the bills nor guarantee you a decent job.

by Fasters March 19, 2023

Mathematical Nihilism

The atheistic viewpoint that numbers and geometric shapes don’t exist but are man-made—they are mere human constructs or abstractions that are often used as imperfect tools to make sense of the physical universe, be it for modeling or predicting purposes.

No one has control over numbers outside of their minds; no one can draw a perfect circle or square; solving all those oft-impractical word problems at best shows a certain degree of algorithmic or algebraic proficiency. Are these limitations, imperfections, or formulations mere instances of mathematical nihilism?

by Fasters March 19, 2023

Pi Call

When you pick up a call from a cell phone number whose digits are exactly the same as the first few digits of the decimal number π.

What are the chances that someone would pick up a pi call during their lifetime?

by Fasters March 23, 2023

Meter

The distance light travels in 1/x of a second, where x is 299,792,458—the length is measured in terms of the speed of light (x m/s), which never changes.

Since one meter was defined to be 1/10,000,000 (or one over 10 million) the distance from the North Pole to the Equator in 1793, the meter had since undergone a few definitional changes before its present official definition was agreed in 1983.

by Fasters March 23, 2023

Pi Plate

When a car plate number displays the first few digits of the decimal number π—the question that pops up in a geeky onlooker’s mind is the amount the car owner paid for this private plate.

A geeky billionaire was spotted driving a Porsche with a pi plate on the streets of Paris.

by Fasters March 24, 2023

Devillion

A layperson’s name for the number one followed by 666 zeros, 10⁶⁶⁶—a quantity that is hell-bent to prove itself to be of relevance or significance to mathematicians, metamathematicians, or theomaticians.

Could Hades hold a devillion souls if the wicked aliens from other planets or galaxies were fated to live eternally with earthlings?

by Fasters March 24, 2023