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Short for “Pi Parrot.” Someone who takes part in a memory competition that requires them to recite as many digits of the decimal number π as possible, when the local winner stands a chance of getting their name into their country’s Book of Records, or the global winner into the Guinness Book of Records.
Guesstimate the total number of amateur and professional pirrots worldwide, who spend thousands of hours every year training for the pithon or pi competition.
by MathPlus October 17, 2021
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Just as the American right-wing ex-president promoted disinfectants and UV light as corona cures to his millions of diehard supporters, the Indian prime minister is now touting yoga as a spiritual cure against Covid-19 and the deadlier Delta variant to his hardcore BJP supporters.
by MathPlus July 4, 2021
Get the Yogamug. Singapore’s popular hangout for migrant workers, and a destination of choice for budget tourists, which is arguably ground zero for the high number of corona infected cases that had plagued the “fine” island-state.
Although safe distancing measures were in place at the dormitories long before the lockdown started on April 7, with thousands of migrant workers socializing and shopping at Mustafa Shopping Centre on their off days, it’d have been a miracle or modern-day Passover had God graciously and completely spared the mostly Hindu and Muslim migrants from the coronavirus.
by MathPlus January 5, 2021
Get the Mustafa Shopping Centremug. When governments want to discreetly keep a record of “uncooperative” or “selfish” citizens and residents who refuse to be vaccinated against coronavirus, thus hindering their goal for the population to attain herd immunity.
Countries that have set up the C register are mum what they’d do to those vaccine free riders, other than hinting that they’d not expect to be treated the same as those who have come forward to be inoculated in spite of potential health risks.
by MathPlus February 23, 2021
Get the The C Registermug. When locals’ and aliens’ mixed attitude vis-à-vis otters and their apparently manageable growing population on the “fine” city of Singapore provides a fertile ground for math educators to pose a number of brain-unfriendly questions to challenge exam-smart symbol-minded students.
Two otter math questions from a Singapore math problem solving book are:
1. At a recent otter attack at a church’s fish pond, five koi fish were swallowed up, while the remaining partially eaten fish were left with one or two eyes. From the 17 koi fish in the pond, the verger found only 16 eyes. How many koi fish lost only one eye?
2. On average, what percentage of fish in a pond get eaten by an otter family every time they terrorize a condominium located in some posh area of Singapore?
1. At a recent otter attack at a church’s fish pond, five koi fish were swallowed up, while the remaining partially eaten fish were left with one or two eyes. From the 17 koi fish in the pond, the verger found only 16 eyes. How many koi fish lost only one eye?
2. On average, what percentage of fish in a pond get eaten by an otter family every time they terrorize a condominium located in some posh area of Singapore?
by MathPlus December 11, 2021
Get the Otter Mathmug. A label for a believer of Christ whose spiritual condition is worrisome as they appear to be heading to the side of eternity, where now reside the Hitlers, Stalins, Maos, and Osamas—a global synchronized corporate prayer might help save the souls of these Easter or Christmas attendees.
With atheism as the unspoken religion in most parts of Europe, and with right-wing or religious extremism on the rise in the US and the West, guesstimate how many millions of dodo Christians worldwide might not have their names in the Book of Life.
by MathPlus May 16, 2021
Get the Dodo Christianmug. A number that is arguably born with a lucky star due to its popularity or idolatry among mathematicians, who devoted an obscene number of years trying to unearth its allegedly manifold beautiful properties, much to the envy of thousands of fellow rational and irrational numbers, who see themselves as a nobody in the numerical world.
Besides a few lucky numbers like e, i, and 𝜙, which had aroused a fair bit of interest among the mathematical brethren, π remains the sexiest (or overrated) number in the whole of mathematics.
by MathPlus February 25, 2021
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