Fasters's definitions

Pittern

A tessellated diagram that at first glance may not look like it was produced by the number π, but on closer look, it reveals a figure patterned solely by the mathematical contant positioned in different orientations.

Ian plans to promote some of his pitterns as part of a collection of Pi NFTs on OpenSea, hoping that some math geeks would buy or bid for these wallet-friendly digital creations to support him financially.

by Fasters March 25, 2022

Pi Revolution

Where math educators, publishers, and bookstores worldwide join forces on Pi Day to promote the beauty, ubiquity, and utility of the number π to millions of students, teachers, and parents.

Guesstimate how many students’ lives are annually being impacted positively thanks to the pi revolution.

by Fasters December 31, 2021

Xmas Pi

When the number π has unprovenly been using dreams for centuries to hint at number theorists and numerologists that besides some Old Testament books in the Bible, the birth of Christ is also revealed via its digits, if only they know how or where to look for them—had they sought the Holy Spirit, the Third Person in the Trinity, for direction, they would have received the revelation instead of struggling with their own intellect.

Divining the virgin birth of the Messiah via Xmas pi would have been a digital coup for the mathematical brethren, who could have been flirting with mathematical immortality thanks to their discovery.

by Fasters December 14, 2021

Meter

The distance light travels in 1/x of a second, where x is 299,792,458—the length is measured in terms of the speed of light (x m/s), which never changes.

Since one meter was defined to be 1/10,000,000 (or one over 10 million) the distance from the North Pole to the Equator in 1793, the meter had since undergone a few definitional changes before its present official definition was agreed in 1983.

by Fasters March 23, 2023

Flirting

A dating equivalent of applying the trial-and-error strategy to hit a target as long as personal parameters or expectations are not unreasonable or unachievable.

John isn’t puritanically opposed to flirting as long as his younger date is beautiful, sexy, hilarious, rich, shorter than him, and can cook as well as his mother or grandmother.

by Fasters March 28, 2023

Pi Awakening

When an oft-semi-innumerate lay public realize that the number π has so much more to offer in terms of mathematical beauty or metamathematics (or mathematical philosophy), which allows them to experience sporadic aha moments, other than what they had boringly learned about the constant in school.

Going by the increasing number of pop math titles on pi published by math educators of different nationalities in different places, it can be arguably posited that there is presently a post-pandemic pi awakening sweeping the planet, much to the delight of both recreational and amateur mathematicians.

by Fasters December 14, 2022

Pi Colonialism

When math historians from the US and the West never fail to emphasize the contributions of white mathematicians on the development of the number π, with quasi-zero mention of inputs from their nonwhite counterparts.

With a large proportion of journal articles being published by co-authors from different nationalities or races, to what extent is pi colonialism still being practiced in academic publishing today?

by Fasters May 22, 2022