The mathematical equivalent of an answered prayer, such as being healed of an incurable disease or chronic sickness; seeing a business, financial, or relationship breakthrough; and helping others deliver from demonic oppression or sexual addiction in the name of Jesus Christ.
In the spiritual realm, mathematical equations in the naturalworld no longer hold true thanks to supernatural forces: 1 + 1 ≠ 2, 1 + 1 + 1 = 1, …, 2 + 5 = 5000, π = 3.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)