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When someone has accidentally been jabbed with a dosage that is almost π times the recommended value.
An 80-year-old immunocompromised patient—who has been in ICU for over a week—was found to have been piccinated by a pro-Trump anti-vax nurse, who apparently misread the figures on the label.
by Fasters January 30, 2022
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Countless sites boldly advertise their “Pi Your Bitcoin” schemes, by putting the word “legit” to make people believe it’s not a scam.
by Fasters March 27, 2022
Get the Pi Your Bitcoin mug.When crypto investors reminisce that a pizza restaurant accepted 10,000 bitcoins in exchange for two large pizzas on May 22, 2010—the bitcoin was then worth 41 bucks.
by Fasters May 30, 2023
Get the Pizza Day mug.The post-Omicron coronavirus variant that is suing the WHO for refusing to credit her for reasons (political, racial, …, mathematical) unknown to, or hidden from, her, even after she had visited millions of urban homes in China and spent some uneasy time with the residents from all social strata, in recent weeks.
With tens of millions of migrant workers going back to their villages to visit their loved ones in the Lunar New Year of the Rabbit, Pi rationalized that her targeted billion-odd visitations in rural areas wouldn’t go unnoticed by WHO officials, who’d be forced to grant her overdue Greek citizenship among fellow Covid-19 variants.
by Fasters January 13, 2023
Get the Pi mug.A numerical relationship or statement that most kindergarteners and elementary school students reject as being an equation, because in their minds the “answer” or the “sum” must always be on the right side of an equation.
When students don’t consider numerical liaisons like 3 = 2 + 1 and 1 = 3 – 2 as valid equations or mathematical sentences, their responses reveal a fair bit about their thinking processes.
by Fasters May 8, 2022
Get the 3 = 2 + 1 mug.The atheistic viewpoint that numbers and geometric shapes don’t exist but are man-made—they are mere human constructs or abstractions that are often used as imperfect tools to make sense of the physical universe, be it for modeling or predicting purposes.
No one has control over numbers outside of their minds; no one can draw a perfect circle or square; solving all those oft-impractical word problems at best shows a certain degree of algorithmic or algebraic proficiency. Are these limitations, imperfections, or formulations mere instances of mathematical nihilism?
by Fasters March 19, 2023
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Besides showing thinking, window thinking, and sink thinking, where these activities often trigger an aha!, indulging in pi thinking ought to be encouraged as well.
by Fasters February 24, 2022
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