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The art of predicting someone’s personality based on the number of digits of the number π they remember or have painfully committed to memory, or on a certain fraction or expression they use to approximate the irrational number.
In pseudo-evangelical circles or conspiratorial quarters, it’s not too difficult to match the piroscope sign MAGA patriots belong to.
by Fasters May 26, 2023
Get the Piroscope mug.When a math-anxious or mathophobic person’s stress level skyrockets at the sight or sound of the number π, or on spotting expressions or formulas that contain the irrational number—common symptoms are faster heartbeat, sweaty palms, temporary mental blackouts, and in some cases a seconds-long stroke.
Don, who’s creepily pi-ed after watching a science fiction horror movie, was given three days leave by his family psychiatrist to recover from his post-pi traumatic experience.
by Fasters May 28, 2023
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The “Pi Made Me Do It” sounds like a marketing slogan in the math or math education business, but its global positive impact among math educators has so far been nothing short of a miracle.
by Fasters May 29, 2023
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by Fasters May 30, 2023
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Ian wants his success in cryptomath to inspire more artists and educators to creatively use math to help raise the mathematical proficiency or quantitative literacy of their fellow citizens.
by Fasters June 2, 2023
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Most math educators worldwide dread their oft-underpaid or overworked or unfulfilled day job, because few of them have learned to recognize or leverage on their π factor to become a candidate of choice among the unicorns or decacorns.
by Fasters June 3, 2023
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Some Singapore math publishers have apparently been warned by some white Taliban curriculum censors in some red states—they need to remove pages that promote multicultural or DEI math, such as depicting Chinese, Arabic, and Hindu numerals for the numbers one to nine, or stating that the theorem named after Pythagoras was known to Chinese and Egyptian mathematicians long before the Greek numerologist was born.
by Fasters June 5, 2023
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