MathPlus's definitions

Who’s on Your Throne?

When your success in life depends on whether you are worshipping your problem or God—you need to put Him on the throne, while taking down your negatives, fears, bad breaks, or offenses off the throne—there is room only for one up there.

Don’t give your educational or financial lack, debt, or cancer the permission to be on your throne; instead, keep them off the throne, because the key to allowing or stopping God’s reign over your life is: “Who’s on your throne?”

by MathPlus September 24, 2018

The Five Senses of Pi

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.

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

Fake News

A phrase politicians use when they don’t like what the media are saying about them—headlines that expose them as liars or untrustworthy.

Probably no other world leader has uttered “fake news” more often than President Trump, who wants to demonize the free press by all means and at all costs—he denounces any article or broadcast that speaks ill of him and his administration as nothing but fake news.

by MathPlus April 20, 2018

MAGA MATH

Short for “Make America Greater Again, Make Americans Think Harder.” A 2024 slogan to Trumpublicans to make America numerate or quantitatively literate again, by not having Asian immigrants or naturalized Americans but white natives as mathletes to represent the USA at international olympiads.

Chanting his MAGA MATH mantra at rallies, Donald J. Trump promises his blue-collar supporters that only true-blue white Americans would be allowed to be part of the US math teams at all regional and international contests and competitions, and not alien mathletes or math imports.

by MathPlus June 5, 2021

Data Discrimination

The use of big data to discriminate against those who don’t have a “good credit score” in public—for example, an insurance company might charge someone a higher premium because they live in a crime-infested area, or in a region with a high percentage of loan defaulters or smokers.

Big data and social media companies, which collect data on people’s profiles and purchasing behaviors and credit-worthiness, are unethically selling these sensitive information to banks and insurance companies, which in turn apply data discrimination against potential clients.

by MathPlus September 5, 2018

Virus Hunters

Commonly or blandly known as “contact tracers,” who help identify people (and possibly even pets) who may have been exposed to the coronavirus to prevent onward transmission.

In Singapore, most virus hunters, made up of government officers, military personnel, and ex-hotel and airline staff, used to make between 30 and 100 calls during their 12-hour shift, ploughing through receipts and data to map out links between cases and establish clusters.

by MathPlus May 5, 2023

Coviffiti

Graffiti that depict the casualties or fatalities brought about by the dishonesty or ineptitude of fake heads of state vis-à-vis the coronavirus, whose actions and inactions have caused so much pain and suffering to millions of people.

All over the United States, coviffiti are popping up to target the ex-president’s fake leadership and failure in containing the pandemic crisis, which had resulted in more than half a million deaths.

by MathPlus February 23, 2021