When the consecutive digits of a barcode pop up among the digits of the decimal number π, which might lead the discoverer to suspect whether there could be some hidden message from a deity or the devil to them and their loved ones.
Paul inquired from both Western and Eastern numerologists on the meaning or significance of the picode, which came to him through a dream some three-odd weeks ago.
by MathPlus July 03, 2021
When you are at home with both Singapore’s bar model method and stack model method that you know which problem-solving visualization strategy is more suitable to solve certain types of word problems.
It’s an open secret that most Singapore math educators or coaches are ill-equipped to handle blended modeling—most are familiar with bar modeling, but few are fluent with the more intuitive stack modeling, in tackling brain-unfriendly math questions.
by MathPlus November 01, 2021
When some corona variants see themselves more powerful or attention-grabbing than others, because of their higher rate of infection, transmission, or destruction.
Just when the UK and Indian Covid-19 strains thought they were the most dangerous viruses plaguing the world, the Vietnamese or North Korean variant could outwit them both, thus showing that the viral inequality between present variants and new hybrids is getting wider over time.
by MathPlus May 31, 2021
Hearing: Your ears can listen to the musical digits of the seemingly random pattern of the decimal number π as they are being recited.
Smell: Your nose can scent the fragrance or sweet aroma of the digits of the transcendental number π.
Sight: Your mind’s eye can see at a glance the entire beautiful landscape of the real number π.
Taste: Your tongue can savor the different flavors of the digits of the sacred number π.
Touch: Your skin can feel the different sensations of the digits of the normal number π, when it is truncated to a certain number of significant figures.
Smell: Your nose can scent the fragrance or sweet aroma of the digits of the transcendental number π.
Sight: Your mind’s eye can see at a glance the entire beautiful landscape of the real number π.
Taste: Your tongue can savor the different flavors of the digits of the sacred number π.
Touch: Your skin can feel the different sensations of the digits of the normal number π, when it is truncated to a certain number of significant figures.
Guesstimate how many autistic people or idiot savants around the world could experience at least one of the five senses of pi.
by MathPlus September 19, 2021
The Omicron carrier could only be a vaccinatee, because 99.99% of the unvaccinated are barred from traveling.
by MathPlus November 30, 2021
A number that is arguably born with a lucky star due to its popularity or idolatry among mathematicians, who devoted an obscene number of years trying to unearth its allegedly manifold beautiful properties, much to the envy of thousands of fellow rational and irrational numbers, who see themselves as a nobody in the numerical world.
Besides a few lucky numbers like e, i, and 𝜙, which had aroused a fair bit of interest among the mathematical brethren, π remains the sexiest (or overrated) number in the whole of mathematics.
by MathPlus February 26, 2021
A popular sexy numerical figure that is uninhibited to flirt around with other constants or numbers—in most instances, the relationship is purely platonic; however, with some real or imaginary partners, the liaisons look so intimate or passionate that they often evoke an aha! reaction from mathematical voyeurs.
by MathPlus October 05, 2021