The excitement someone feels when they come across something new to them about the number zero, be it a numerical property, puzzle, tidbit, or joke.
Bob’s zerolation upon learning that businesses lose tens of millions of dollars every year because of people’s zerofusion to distinguish between the digit 0 and the letter O lasted a mere few seconds.
by MathPlus September 13, 2018
Get the Zerolationmug. When a brain-unfriendly, tricky, or ill-posed oft-elementary math question in a national exam is shared rapidly and widely on the internet, because an obscene number of unhappy students and their clueless parents could not solve it, who blamed the problem poser of the “unfair” question for causing them trauma, nightmare, pain, or suffering, with some even entertaining suicidal thoughts.
Singapore’s high-stakes Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE)—grade six—exam is notorious for setting viral math questions almost every other year—the PSLE math paper via its higher order thinking skills (HOTS) questions acts as a social filter to filter out the nerds from the herd.
by MathPlus October 21, 2021
Get the Viral Mathmug. When people are advised to avoid handshakes to lower the risk of getting infected with Covid-19, but urged to think of alternative ways to greet one another—for instance, they could bump elbows; embrace the Thai wai and say hi in prayer-like posture; or use the “footshake.”
by MathPlus June 29, 2022
Get the Covid-🤝mug. The Japanese art of folding a square paper, with orange on one side and white on the other side, into a shape that resembles the Pinocchio-in-Chief.
A number of Trumpublican math educators in some red states are planning a Trumpgami Contest on Pi Day to remember the “educational contributions” of their one-term, twice-impeached, thrice-married ex-president, whose signature helped revoke Common Core Math in their schools.
by MathPlus June 22, 2021
Get the Trumpgamimug. An oft-unspoken disability whereby someone could hardly distinguish between the letter “O” and the number 0, often mistaking one for the other—the disorder was coined after the word “naught” for nothing, nil, or zero.
by MathPlus October 11, 2021
Get the Dysnauxiamug. When unscrupulous mainland Chinese manufacturers ship millions of inferior or ISO-unapproved masks to syndicates in both developed and developing countries, which then distribute them to unsuspected hospitals and businesses—when low quality masks the wallet-friendly masks.
Is mask trafficking behind the difference between “Three China-made mask boxes for $10” and “One mask box at $8”?
by MathPlus March 27, 2021
Get the Mask Traffickingmug. The stools of Dictator Kim Jong Un, who is always accompanied by portable toilets to prevent any poo divers from analyzing them, lest they give away rich information about his poor health condition.
Unconfirmed reports hint that the Trump-Kim meeting nearly got aborted when young Dictator Kim refused to let President Trump use one of his toilets lest his supreme shit get contaminated with that of an old white man.
by MathPlus June 15, 2018
Get the Supreme Shitmug.