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Pi Calling

When the number π is hinting to math educators worldwide to turn the wealth of wisdom about her, which has been unearthed over the centuries by thousands of men and women of mathematics, to launch or produce “new” math products that would help them generate a new or rich source of income.
Mathepreneur Ian has identified a few game-changing ideas that have laid hidden in quiet cul-de-sacs in both academia and in publishing houses—he’s doing nothing new but answering to pi calling.
by Numerati January 14, 2025
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Banana Pi

The title of a contemporary artwork by a maverick artist, with the number π in different typefaces and fonts randomly spread out on the skin of a banana, whose starting price at an upcoming auction is forecast to be at least US$3.14 million.
A billionaire felon who’s recently pardoned for his years-long crypto crimes is rumoured to be a potential buyer of “Banana Pi,” with the plan to donate it to a presidential library.
by Numerati November 1, 2025
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Bitcoin

A digital asset that has gained currency in decentralized Ponzi schemes, which makes it virtually impossible to catch the bad actors (criminals, hackers, money launderers, drug & human traffickers, …); it also serves as safe virtual money to protect the wealth of those who live in developing countries beset with hyperinflation.
Once dubbed an “index of money laundering,” bitcoin is often confused with blockchain, which is a system of recording information that is almost impossible to change or forge.
by Numerati June 28, 2024
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πX

The minimum number of times a company’s profitability could grow, because its employees’ career pathways are T-shaped (The Anything Workforce)—the opposite of an I-shaped (One Thing Workforce), which is siloed, rigid, and fixed.
With Trump’s yo-yo tariffs and threats vis-à-vis allies, the chances of witnessing more πX American companies emerging around the world in coming years look pretty slim.
by Numerati July 5, 2025
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Does Pi Love Me?

When you are mathematically tickled why you have been experiencing an aha! on or about the number π pretty frequently recently—for no logical or valid reasons, it is as if pi seems to be infatuated with you.
Besides coming up with a few sexy proofs on some pi-related theorems, I spotted my birthdate and my cellphone number 31,415 digits apart among the first ten thousand digits in the decimal number pi. Sounds like a sign from on high that makes me wonder: “Does Pi love me?”
by Numerati November 5, 2023
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Pithon

Someone who is fined about π thousand bucks for savagely or inhumanly killing a snake or cobra.
At a public wet market, the judge sentenced a pithon for chopping off the head of the poor creature with a cleaver, while his beer-drinking buddies were hysterically laughing about his heinous act.
by Numerati November 20, 2023
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Zero Fucks

When someone doesn’t give a heck or damn if they feel they were or are right or wrong, even if others didn’t or don’t like them because of it.
Leaders can’t lead their sheep effectively unless they give zero fucks to all those oft-unreasonable or biased complains or protests against them.
by Numerati October 7, 2024
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