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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. 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
Get the Faithmug. 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
Get the Hungry Ghost Monthmug. Short for “Pi Anointed.” When someone is believed to be specially chosen by some cosmic or invisible forces on high to disseminate tidbits or factoids about the irrational and transcendental number π to bring joy not only to the mathematical community, but also to an oft-math-anxious lay public.
Dr. Paulos credits the Holy Spirit for giving him insight or wisdom about all things π-related—his friends think that he’s pinointed for christening hundreds of π definitions or phrases on cyberspace.
by Numerati August 5, 2025
Get the Pinointedmug. The mathematical equivalent of a child riding a tricycle before switching to a bicycle, or using a float while learning to swim—using bar diagrams instead of forming algebraic equations to solve word problems.
Bar modeling, which is the heart and soul of the Singapore math curriculum, acts a bridge between elementary (or primary) math and middle school (or secondary) math—where concrete rectangles or bars are used instead of abstract variables for unknown quantities.
by Numerati December 28, 2024
Get the Bar Modelingmug. A coiner or christener of π-related words or phrases, most of which have made Urban Dictionary their dwelling of choice.
by Numerati July 1, 2025
Get the Pismithmug. The mathematical equivalent of a meeting-free day or passport-less travel. When the sight of the symbol π is enough to trigger panic or paranoia among billions of folks worldwide, who think they weren’t born or blessed with the “math gene.”
Just as a math book without equations or formulas could raise the sales figures by a few folds, a pi-free math book could give thousands of math-anxious folks more confidence in picking up a pop math book without feeling unduly stressed.
by Numerati January 2, 2025
Get the A Pi-Free Math Bookmug.