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Everyone is a fake

Not just Donald Trump, but practically everyone who has ever achieved some degree of worldly success, is a charlatan—people improvise as they go along, hoping that luck and success would conspire to be on their side until they become somebody blessed with many friends (and fiends and foes).
The biographies of many successful people reveal that when faced with hit-and-hope situations, they can’t help but to bluff or fake their way through until they make it—an oft-unspoken common denominator among many rich and famous people is that everyone is a fake at some point, when they’re still a nobody.
by MathPlus September 5, 2018
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Avoid Pi Like the Plague

An ill-advised mantra math-anxious folks unquestionably take to heart on hearing it from negative or unhelpful people, who are only contaminating the minds of their listeners with fake mathematical information.
To tell someone to avoid pi like the plague is like telling them that π is a rational number because it can be expressed as the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.
by MathPlus November 6, 2021
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Mathematical Pointillism

The use of small dots rather than a pen, pencil, or Sharpie marker to depict a numeral, geometric figure, formula, or math concept.
Even artists who are allergic to school math could demonstrate their numerical, geometric, or formulaic creativity through mathematical pointillism.
by MathPlus July 9, 2021
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Donald Trump

The name of a barking dog that can’t bite, so over time people have got used to tolerating its noise pollution, which could cause an earache or headache at times, when it doesn’t get what it wants.
During the rut, Donald Trump gets pretty aggressive when it has to fight with other domineering dogs to lure the bitch of choice.
by MathPlus October 7, 2021
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Cecaporeans

Naturalized Singaporeans who are often faulted or scapegoated for stealing jobs from locals, especially from retrenched middle-aged university and polytechnic graduates, who now have to work as cab drivers or Grab food delivery riders to make a living— Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) has so far been a one-sided trade agreement whereby India has benefited a thousand times more than Singapore, with tens of thousands of Indian graduates from oft-dubious universities currently working in a hundred-odd industries in the island state.
What percents of Cecaporeans had successfully used their fake degrees to secure employment in the “fine” city of Singapore? How many of them were recruited thanks to cronyism and old boys’ networks?
by MathPlus November 18, 2021
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Maskelist

Someone who collects face masks from different countries as a hobby: DIY masks, designer masks, defective masks, political masks, and the like.
With the coronavirus pandemic still raging and the wearing of face masks being mandatory in most parts of the world, maskelists have popped up in different parts of the world, as they see an opportunity to make some decent money from their new hobby.
by MathPlus March 9, 2021
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Trumpezium

An obese- or obscene-looking quadrilateral with zero parallel sides—also known as “trumpezoid” in the Commonwealth countries.
What Americans call a trumpezium, the British call a trumpezoid, and vice versa.
by MathPlus September 19, 2020
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