Definitions by Numerati
Null Island
Located at zero longitude and zero latitude (or at 0 degrees north and 0 degrees east) in the South Atlantic Ocean—where the prime meridian meets the equator—where it would be if it actually existed.
Null Island is a mélange of real and imaginary geography, of mathematical certainty, and pure fantasy.
Null Island by Numerati September 29, 2024
Math Porn
That applying math in meeting people’s needs and wants, or in coming up with products of desire, could make you über-rich, because the geeks shalt inherit the earth—think of the founders of Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, TikTok, and Tesla.
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.
Hungry Ghost Month by Numerati September 13, 2024
Rainbow
The sign that reminds God of the eternal covenant or promise He had established between Him and all living creatures on Earth to never ever allow a flood to destroy all life on the planet.
Trumplation
When you compare a big Tic Tac with a little Tic Tac, which obviously sell at different prices due to their sizes, to define inflation, rather than comparing the prices of two boxes of Tic Tacs of the same size at different times.
Trumplation by Numerati August 17, 2024
Pigeist
The name of an annual survey, where members of the Constants Club anonymously share how they feel about the number π, which is viewed as the most famous constant in the whole of mathematics, and in popular culture.
Prime Mates
Prime numbers that produce another prime number when they intimately come together—for example, when primes 2 and 3 have fun together, they produce the prime 23.
Prime Mates by Numerati August 12, 2024