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Vaccine Dilemma

To inoculate frontline workers and the vulnerable everywhere in the world first, or to vaccinate everybody in the developed world first before vaccinating those in the developing world.

On moral grounds, rich countries face a vaccine dilemma: should they let medical personnel from rogue or dictatorial nations like North Korea and Venezuela be jabbed first before their own people?

by MathPlus March 2, 2021

Trump™

When Donald J. Trump thought he experienced an aha! in the middle of the night after his Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) lies-plagued speech that trademarking part of his name, if approved, would swiftly help him pay his bigly debts and mounting legal fees without having to serially cook the books.

Besides Trump™, the ex-president is also thinking of MAGA™ or Make America Great Again™.

by MathPlus March 2, 2021

Math

A dirty word among non-symbol-minded folks who are not keen, or find it brain-unfriendly, to learn the language of mass, length, and time; instead, they would rather pay the exam-smart or geeks to do the oft-tedious task for them.

The math guys and gals run the world, but most are clumsy in communicating their ideas to others, thus making them look like cold-hearted beings living in a platonic world of their own.

by MathPlus March 2, 2021

Chili Math

Fiendish math questions that are likely to get someone mentally constipated, or to make them feel logically disgusted, if they attempt to solving them without any formal training or preparation.

Like olympiad math, chili math should be introduced only to mathematically precocious kids lest the questions prove logically repugnant to immature or young minds.

by MathPlus March 2, 2021

Covid Power

When your fiends or foes realize that you have the power to harm or decimate them if they come close to you despite your small size.

Who can make light of the covid power of the dengue mosquito, which kills hundreds of people every year in some parts of Asia?

by MathPlus March 2, 2021

Dieversity

The opposite of diversity, which white racists or supremacists unashamedly embrace, because having non-white smarter staff or colleagues in the workplace would threaten their job security and expose their bigotry and ineptitude.

Trump’s dieversity strategy benefits him and his cronies in the short term, but not the once-known country of opportunity for everybody willing to work hard and smart.

by MathPlus March 3, 2021

Trumptarithm

A cryptarithm à la Trump. An illegal or immoral word sum in which each of the letters stands for one of the digits 0–9, with different letters standing for different digits.

Solve the following trumptarithms.
(i) BAD + BAD = GOOD
(ii) WRONG + WRONG = RIGHT
(iii) LIAR + UNFIT = TRUMP

Hints: (i) 3 solutions (ii) 21 solutions (iii) 22 solutions

by MathPlus March 3, 2021