Short for “Corona Executioner Officer.” A right-wing oft-inept head of state or dictator who threatens to jail anyone who refuses to get a jab due to the country’s high infection and fatality rates but low vaccination rate.
With a pathetic vaccination rate of 1.91% for Philippines’s population of 110 million, CEO Rodrigo Duterte is fed up with the tortoise take-up rate of his people turning up for a shot.
by MathPlus June 22, 2021
Also known as “chain breaker.” Someone who has the power or is empowered to stop any human sickness, addiction, and limitation—one who heals, delivers, and blesses.
Jesus is the zero breaker to millions of people every day, as they are graciously being released into healing and favor.
by MathPlus February 25, 2021
The question asked, whether or not aloud, when a death is announced these days, as if few people died in the community or country in pre-pandemic days.
If the answer to “Was it caused by COVID-19?” is rumored or suspected to be positive, fewer relatives and friends are prone to attending a funeral wake.
by MathPlus March 28, 2021
When you deliberately present figures that end in zeros, instead of including decimal points or fractions—you want to simplify and present the numbers to the nearest thousand, million, or billion so that people can easily make sense of them.
Trying to impress a lay audience with accurate statistics is a case of “more is less”—for example, instead of saying that the 2020 budget is expected to be $148,765,332,185.00, a friendly figure rounded down with simple zeros like $148 billion would be more meaningful.
by MathPlus January 12, 2019
When math educators in America are pushing for their states and schools to embrace the Singapore math curriculum, or part of it, to raise the mathematical proficiency of their students—Singapore is often touted as a model for quality math education that is achievable via wallet-friendly good-quality textbooks.
Trump’s white “patriots” and diehard blue-collar supporters in red states are against the “Make US Math Singapore Math” slogan, as they’re allergic to any form of alien math infiltrating their local schools.
by MathPlus October 03, 2021
When some math geeks celebrate their birthday by having each half of their cake cut into four pieces, with three of them each having an arc length equal to the radius of the cake.
by MathPlus February 06, 2021
When the number π is suffering from imposter syndrome in spite of its perceived or recognized beauty, ubiquity, and utility in many areas of mathematics and science.
Since the start of the pandemic, there have been few new theorems or breakthroughs on the irrational number π, so mathematicians have started to hypothesize whether the pi self phenomenon isn’t finally being manifested.
by MathPlus July 23, 2021