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In addition to performance currency (when you deliver upon a product above people’s expectations) and relationship currency (when you take the time to connect, engage, and get to know people in your milieu), you need math currency to make yourself an odd in a sea of evens.
by MathPlus October 28, 2021
If the value of π in heaven is arguably 3, which is computed based on two biblical verses (1 Kings 7:23 and 2 Chronicles 4:2), what is the value of pi on earth then?
by MathPlus December 04, 2020
The slogan the Opposition in Singapore fearfully want to use so that citizens and residents can criticize the authorities, or could stage public protests, without the risk of being arrested or sued.
The “fear factor” among Singaporeans to speak up and to speak out has numbed them and made them politically indifferent—with lawsuits against political critics on the rise in recent years, the Opposition’s promise to make Singapore free again is just a dream for now.
by MathPlus December 15, 2018
Every time two countries announce an air travel bubble, one of them will see a spike in corona cases closer to the flight date, dashing hopes of paid travellers, who would nevertheless be consoled that they would be given first priority for the next fight if they were not to cancel their booking.
On the one occasion when the air travel bubble hypothesis was apparently proved wrong, the decades-old Soviet plane that was carrying a few dozen Russian mercenaries and terrorists was never heard again after take-off—had the ATB hypothesis struck in a more deadly form?
by MathPlus March 11, 2022
Two deadly mass events—the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks by radical Islamists from Saudi Arabia and the December 2009 coronavirus pandemic spread by Chinese Communists from Wuhan—that had killed thousands of innocent lives due to radical ideology and viral cover-up, with fear, death, loss, pain, and trauma among the common denominators.
Between 🇸🇦₉₁₁ & 🇨🇳🦠₁₉, which event has greater eternal consequences for mankind, besides their present religious and political ramifications on earth?
by MathPlus September 12, 2020
When petrified oft-morally corrupt GOP members show their blind or one-way street loyalty to Donald J. Trump lest his base supporters might dump them at the next election.
A few trumpnotized governors and mayors felt betrayed by their president, who vindictively and viciously lashed out at them for refusing to break the law in overturning the election results that declared victory to his opponent.
by MathPlus December 09, 2020
It is the presence of God in your life, not your possessions, that makes you a success—stop chasing material things and start a personal relationship with Him.
You may be financially naked, educationally unqualified, and not connected to people of influence, yet if you've faith in the power of the presence of God in your life, you can expect your nothings to turn into somethings—who you have, not what you have is what matters.
by MathPlus March 16, 2017