MathPlus's definitions

Jolly Jabbed

When someone gets vaccinated an unhealthy number of times, because these extra shots had apparently helped them “stay healthy” with quasi-zero adverse effects, while at the same time relieving them of acute or chronic pain, and getting rid of their other health conditions.

Mr. Mandal, who admitted to have been jolly jabbed from Covid-19 at least 11 times in less than two years, was prevented from receiving his 12th shot, after the authorities horrifyingly uncovered his serial trickery.

by MathPlus January 9, 2022

Djokovicinated

When an unvaccinated person assumes that the authorities would grant them a medical exemption to take part in a national event, tournament, or competition because of their fame and wealth, or denying them a privileged or unfair entry would incur loss of tourism revenue and create negative publicity for the country.

In appealing against the cancellation of a visa entry to Australia—which was decided in the name of “health and safety and in the public interest”—lawyers of the world’s number one tennis player failed to convince the court that their djokovicinated client wouldn’t "increase in anti-vaccination sentiment" and even incite "civil unrest.”

by MathPlus January 16, 2022

Covid Is Not Stupid

An unofficial mantra that morally bankrupt or ethically challenged Trumpublicans and QAnonists should have taken heed of, but were too conceited and dumb to realize that those invisible deadly viruses and their variants were smarter than them.

That “Covid is not stupid” has yet to sink in among Trump’s patriots and diehard supporters is no surprise considering the relatively high rate of infection and of mortality in most red states—a positive correlation between stupidity and mortality is hard to discount.

by MathPlus January 18, 2022

Are you a pi-kind of person?

When people wander why every now and then you can’t help yourself but to randomly start behaving like an irrational or even delusional person, although they are curiously or mysteriously mesmerized by your transcendental beauty or brilliant brain.

e: “Are you a pi-kind of person? Or more of a phi-kind of personality?”
i: “Dear, my ancestors came from the Land of the Imaginary, so we’re anything but real!”

by MathPlus December 6, 2021

Mathematical Steroid

Short-term success in math, whereby exam-smart teachers and tutors drill or spoon-feed students, by getting them to memorize modeled solutions of questions that are likely to appear in the coming examination based on previously set questions from past exam papers.

It’s not surprising that most university students in Singapore, who are reading for a degree in math, struggle with their courses because they grew up on mathematical steroids in high school.

by MathPlus December 7, 2021

Christmas Pi

When symbol-minded folks decide to come up with some math crackers in the form of π-related quickies and trickies for Christmas to enliven the mood of math geeks, who couldn’t wait to go back to school to indulge themselves in some creative problem solving.

Moonlighting school math teachers in Singapore have been pressured by some owners of tuition or enrichment math centers to come up with at least twenty-five brain-unfriendly Christmas pi questions to meet the mathematical needs and wants of their restless, bored students.

by MathPlus December 7, 2021

Is Pi More Dog Than Cat?

When the feline behavior of the irrational and transcendental number π, which is stubborn in revealing some of its beautiful numerical or geometric properties, clashes with its oft-canine responses, which occasionally rewards those who have loyally spent their lifetime with the beloved constant with an aha! erection.

The number π is a love-hate mathematical constant among the educated lay public, who are delighted or disgusted by its manifold numerical and geometric properties. To number addicts, is pi more dog than cat? Or is it more cat than dog? To number phobics, pi is unquestionably worse than a pandemic.

by MathPlus December 10, 2021