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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
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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
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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
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Tharmanomics

When economists observe that the fruit of choice among a large proportion of religious or superstitious folks is now the pineapple (which is offered as food to hungry ghosts or spiritual vagabonds, who have descended from hell to earth during the Hungry Ghost Festival or Seventh Month), thus making them hypothesize whether there is any correlation between the switch of fruit and Singapore’s newly elected President’s use of the pineapple symbol during his recent electoral campaign.
Would Tharmanomics last as long as the “fine” city’s ceremonial head of state remained in office, which could be a dozen years (if he’s re-elected after serving his first six-year term)?
by Numerati September 3, 2023
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Pinergy

When the presence of the number π in a headline or image makes it more likely to be read even by someone who would normally have zero interest in the message.
Successful copywriters know that some pinergy in a copy could lure the readership by a few folds.
by Numerati December 8, 2023
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Pinaissance

An era marked by a rekindling or renewing interest in the number π thanks to social media and the metaverse, which has helped reveal its lesser-known beauty and power in many spheres of life, especially among an oft-semi-innumerate or math-anxious lay public.
The pinaissance has opened new business opportunities for mathepreneurs to propagate the gospel of π in popular culture.
by Numerati March 7, 2025
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Math

A four-letter word that traditionally used to be called “arithmetic” in elementary or primary school—the third “R” in Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic. A much-disliked school subject that is mostly used as a social filter to separate the nerds from the herd, or to politically decide the future haves and the have-nots in society.
Unlike our parents and grandparents who’re schooled in old-school math, we’re now taught new math (which includes new ways to add, subtract, and multiply numbers), Common Core math (which incorporates many new math techniques), and Singapore math (which integrates the concrete-pictorial-abstract (CPA) approach to learning math and the bar model method to solve word problems).
by Numerati June 14, 2025
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