Fasters's definitions

Pi NFTs

When non-fungible token (NFT) creators produce digital goods that leverage on the number π—mathematics’s most famous or beloved constant—to target millions of math educators and geeks worldwide, who value true ownership, trust, and transparency of digital assets—from π e-cards and jokes to newly coined π-related words and phrases to π (temporary) tattoos and websites.

Crypto investors, some of whom had even flunked their school math, are eager to own a piece of “mathematical immortality” via pi NFTs.

by Fasters February 7, 2022

Pitrosexual

A term that describes a subset of mathematical constants that try to adopt certain adult behaviors or practices of the number π so that they too could catch the attention of an oft-semi-illiterate public, who might show an interest in them, especially their sexy numerical or geometric properties.

What are the chances that “pitrosexual” would be named the word of the year by the mathematical brethren in a-not-too-distant future?

by Fasters September 13, 2022

Complaints of Void

When a large number of customers continually request something, and the company doesn’t have it—for instance, Threads lacks some must-have features that are presently available on X, formerly Twitter.

Complaints of void are free, valuable feedback, as they expose unmet needs—they are gold mines of opportunity that your competitors could seize to put you out of business.

by Fasters September 10, 2023

Toilet Math

A math joke book you pick up in the bathroom to destress yourself every time you do your business, when your giggling or laughing could help cover up the sound of your relatively loud farting.

Fred likes to amuse his girlfriends with the toilet math jokes he still recalls, when he’s killing two birds with a stone.

by Fasters January 12, 2022

Covid-🎃

When millions of people around the world have mixed feelings about celebrating Halloween during the pandemic, because they are more scared of the coronavirus than ghosts and spirits.

Due to Covid-🎃, adults decided not to dress up in frightening masks and costumes this year out of respect for those who died of Covid-19.

by Fasters October 28, 2020

Pi

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

Mathematical Insurrection

When censors from a Department of Education in a state rejected submitted math textbooks from major publishers because their “woke” authors had allegedly tried to indoctrinate children with critical race theory, foreign problem-solving strategies, and multicultural math topics, when in actual fact these math titles contain real-life problems that would help hone students’ problem-solving skills, compared to artificially canned questions of traditional publishers with whom they have a vested interest in—when politics and profits triumph over pedagogy and proficiency.

Last week, with the blessing of their state governor, diehard math educators in Florida carried out a mathematical insurrection against a number of educational publishers for subtly including Common Core pedagogies on top of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Social Emotional Learning (SEL) elements in their textbooks.

by Fasters April 25, 2022