Numerati's definitions

Mathematical Asylum

When people apply to become permanent residents or citizens of another country, because they continually face job discrimination from both local and foreign employers, or from their own elitist government—the good jobs are given to those who were born or blessed with the “mathematical gene.”

Like millions of asylum seekers from developing countries and theocratic states, who fear discrimination for being gay or a woman in their country of origin, what are the chances that in a-not-too-distant future, math-anxious or mathematically challenged folks might also apply for mathematical asylum to live in some anti-multicultural or anti-woke societies?

by Numerati September 26, 2023

Trump Figures

Overvalued or inflated numbers or percents issued by an unscrupulous or corrupt businessperson, so that their rogue or shady businesses could secure better loan terms and insurance deals, and would pay lesser tax.

Mr. Pinocchio could be fined up to $250m and be banned from doing business in his home state should he be found guilty of submitting an obscene number of trump figures related to his bigly valued properties.

by Numerati October 2, 2023

Girl Math

The fuzzy-and-funny logic used by female digital natives (who proudly boast about not being born or blessed with the “math gene”) to rationalize why they are getting a pretty good deal as far as their time, money, and convenience are concerned, compared to those who think or act differently from them.

“Girl math” may debatably be likened to the female equivalent of Yogi-isms or Yogi Berra’s “aphorisms.”

by Numerati October 7, 2023

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.

The rainbow is a visible symbol of God’s faithfulness since the days of Noah—when God’s judgment fell on His sinful people.

by Numerati September 11, 2024

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

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.

Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Musk are today’s most prominent hate-and-love ambassadors of the math porn movement, whose products or services have led billions of users into technological or digital bondage.

by Numerati September 23, 2024

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.

by Numerati September 29, 2024