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The God of Acceleration

When God not only showers His blessing on your life but speeds it up, by making things happen that you could not make happen with your own intelligence and effort—when you witness breakthroughs in your relationships, finances, promotions, and health at such a speed that would make your head swim and turn heads.

The God of acceleration shows that He doesn’t operate according to our human’s natural timeline—what would normally take us years to achieve, He could just do it in the twinkle of an eye.

by MathPlus November 29, 2020

The Pi Self

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

If Trump Had a Burmese Wife

When Donald J. Trump wished one of his wives were from Burma, who would have reminded him to seek undemocratic advice from her country’s military coup leaders, which could have allowed him to have faux more years at the White House should his numerous lawsuits against alleged fraudulent voting fail.

If Trump had a Burmese wife or mistress, he’d have undemocratically been re-elected, by staging a professionally planned coup à la Birmanie, or by declaring a years-old martial law to prolong his illegal stay at the White House.

by MathPlus January 31, 2021

Viral Math

When a brain-unfriendly, tricky, or ill-posed oft-elementary math question in a national exam is shared rapidly and widely on the internet, because an obscene number of unhappy students and their clueless parents could not solve it, who blamed the problem poser of the “unfair” question for causing them trauma, nightmare, pain, or suffering, with some even entertaining suicidal thoughts.

Singapore’s high-stakes Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE)—grade six—exam is notorious for setting viral math questions almost every other year—the PSLE math paper via its higher order thinking skills (HOTS) questions acts as a social filter to filter out the nerds from the herd.

by MathPlus October 21, 2021

COVID-19

The planetary equivalent of someone who suffered a heart attack that nearly killed them—which often arises due to zero exercise, unhealthy diet, or high-stress lifestyle—because earthlings made bad choices like deforesting and polluting the earth, ignoring the poor and the marginalized, and overspending on the military but underspending on health care systems.

COVID-19 exposes how fragile global supply chains are, how under-funded health or medical systems worldwide are, and how vulnerable the poor and marginalized in both developed and developing countries are.

by MathPlus March 10, 2021

Hypnotic Pi

When autistic folks and idiot savants claim that hours-long meditation on the seemingly random or sacred digits of the number π puts them in some kind of trance, which allows their mind’s eye to see sexy numerical patterns or relationships, or to visualize kaleidoscopic geometric shapes in higher dimensions.

Number theorists obsessed with the properties of π love to indulge themselves in hypnotic pi activities, hoping to experience a few aha! moments, which could help them secure early tenure thanks to some breakthrough results or elegant proofs on pi that grace the pages of reputable math journals.

by MathPlus June 27, 2021

Zerolation

The excitement someone feels when they come across something new to them about the number zero, be it a numerical property, puzzle, tidbit, or joke.

Bob’s zerolation upon learning that businesses lose tens of millions of dollars every year because of people’s zerofusion to distinguish between the digit 0 and the letter O lasted a mere few seconds.

by MathPlus September 13, 2018