Numerati's definitions

Predictive Pi

When both mathematicians and AI could forecast new mathematical results on the number π based on published papers and from recently awarded pi-related research grants.

Predictive pi has somewhat democrarized previously secretive research conducted by both pure and applied mathematicians around the globe.

by Numerati August 19, 2025

Faith

The spiritual password that allows every believer in Jesus Christ to gain access to and increase in God’s grace—His unmerited favor, which doesn’t depend on their deeds, rites, or pilgrimages they are religiously told to perform in their lifetime.

The enemy doesn’t mind you having faith in an impersonal God, who decides your eternal destiny based on your earthly works; instead, only faith in the Holy Trinity—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit—will enable you and empower you to fulfill your God-given purpose in life.

by Numerati July 6, 2024

Pinointed

Short for “Pi Anointed.” When someone is believed to be specially chosen by some cosmic or invisible forces on high to disseminate tidbits or factoids about the irrational and transcendental number π to bring joy not only to the mathematical community, but also to an oft-math-anxious lay public.

Dr. Paulos credits the Holy Spirit for giving him insight or wisdom about all things π-related—his friends think that he’s pinointed for christening hundreds of π definitions or phrases on cyberspace.

by Numerati August 5, 2025

Hungry Ghost Month

The seventh month of the Chinese lunar calendar, when the “Gates of Hell” are open to allow spirits of the dead—those troubled spiritual vagabonds that failed to be reincarnated as another living being—to rejoin the land of the living for a month.

Hungry Ghost Month or Seventh Month believers would faithfully or fearfully offer burnt paper gifts in the form of fake money, branded goods, and electronic devices, or items believed to be desired by the deceased in the afterlife, to the evil spirits roaming their surroundings.

by Numerati September 13, 2024

The Pi in Me

When there is a hidden element of π residing in all humans (or maybe even animals), whether they know it or not, regardless of their experience of school math—that pi-mind consciousness that intuitively seems to be guided by some Higher Being to convey new insights about the “sacred number” to humanity or any living entity.

When someone puts themselves in a Zen-like or transcendental state, the chances of them experiencing “The pi in me” aha! are higher than when they’re constantly being bombarded with a deluge of sensory input.

by Numerati March 22, 2025

The Geography of Singapore Math

Communities and countries (or schools and states) around the globe with the highest and lowest levels of adoption of the Singapore math curriculum, or part of it—which incorporates the best methodologies and pedagogies from both the East and the West—with some demographic or racial groups more receptive to embracing this alien math program than others.

The geography of Singapore math reveals a strong support among American homeschoolers and white middle-class families, who order tens of thousands of math titles every year from the “fine” city-state.

by Numerati April 7, 2025

Mathematical Do-ness

Forcing or motivating yourself to DO-ing some math to beat your daily laziness, especially if you are glued or addicted to your cell phone or digital device for an unhealthy number of hours every day.

Some mathematical do-ness activities that could help white-collar workers break away from their sedentary lifestyle are:

Walk exactly 6789 steps.

Create an origami geometric shape out of the newspaper.

Learn to do calculus—differentiate and integrate—with a soroban (Japanese abacus).

Count the number of ballpoint pens in your house.

by Numerati July 29, 2025