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Short for “Mar-a-Lago Math.” Questions that creative math educators love to pose to expose the dark businesses and malpractices that often take place there between Mr. Pinocchio and his entourage of rogue advisors and morally corrupt lawmakers: shady deals, illicit affairs, illegal storage of classified documents, doctored valuations, and the like.
One billion-dollar MAL math question that has divided real estate agents and bankers is the value of the notorious Floridian private club, which ranges wildly from $18 million to over $1 billion.
by Numerati December 10, 2023
Get the MAL Mathmug. 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
Get the Predictive Pimug. A cappuccino whose 3D froth resembles the shape of some cute feline figure, which excites tens of millions of cat lovers worldwide—their posting of it on social media often goes viral.
by Numerati September 27, 2025
Get the Cattuccinomug. When the number π is aware of injustice and discrimination against other fellow mathematical constants that have not got the same opportunity or media coverage as her, but she is indifferent to all that because speaking up and out about these issues or biases is not to her benefit.
Wokie pi doesn’t want to rock the mathematical boat that has ferried her to so many areas of interest patronized by mathematicians and math educators.
by Numerati December 25, 2024
Get the Wokie Pimug. A euphemistic term for a course study on middle-school and high-school algebra and trigonometry for those who have to read calculus, or who have flunked their calculus before—a prerequisite for those who sign for STEM modules in college.
by Numerati June 19, 2025
Get the Precalculusmug. When someone frequently asks themselves whether or not they could use the sine rule or any sine-related formula to solve an unfamiliar sexy-looking geometry or trigonometry question.
When asked before a group of math educators at a church meeting if he sees himself as sin-conscious, David was tongue-tied, because he’s not sure if it’s a math or morality question: Could they be asking him if he easily succumbs to temptation when, say, seeing a scantily clad woman in public or on Facebook or on magazine covers?
by Numerati August 20, 2023
Get the Sin-Consciousmug. A two-way conversation with a personal God in our three-dimensional world, who listens to or answers us from a four- or n-dimensional space.
Prayer is our daily spiritual oxygen we breathe in from the Great Geometrician, if we are to live a Spirit-filled life on this side of eternity.
by Numerati July 4, 2024
Get the Prayermug.