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

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 07, 2024

Working Out Pi

When both professional and amateur mathematicians worldwide go beyond calculating the number π to billions of digits to often set up world records—their effective algorithms or methods or formulas used to achieve these high-precision calculations also directly or indirectly help usher in new developments in mathematics.

The mathematical brethren’s quest for working out pi is like MAGA patriots doing all they can to ensure that their cult leader gets reelected by any means, legal or not.

by Numerati February 10, 2025

Fight-or-Flight Math

When it is humanly understandable to give up instead of persevering when faced with a false start or failure in solving a math problem—when the pain-and-gain mindset is often missing among struggling or frustrated students, who mistakenly thought that only those blessed or born with the “mathematical gene” could do math.

Fight-or-flight math makes it hard for us to think clearly, logically, and reflexively. Let not negative emotions take control of our reactions.

by Numerati August 08, 2024

MAL Math

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

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 03, 2023

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 08, 2023