Fasters's definitions

The Number of the Feast

When environmentalists are debating what percents of someone’s income must be spent on food to avoid food wastage, while alleviating global poverty—they argue that food is too cheap to provide sufficient income for small farmers, who are the world’s poorest or hungriest people.

The Pinocchio-in-Chief wanted to boast about his skin-deep knowledge about the number of the beast to his MAGA evangelical donors, but they ended up talking about the number of the feast instead.

by Fasters December 10, 2022

Dash

A short horizon line between two numbers—year born and year dead—that represents an entire life from birth to death, which could last for decades, years, days, and minutes that the person buried six feet below ground was given.

A dash shows how short our finite or limited life is on this side of eternity, which can’t be added or multiplied, much less saved up to be used in the future.

by Fasters February 23, 2023

Is Pi Male or Female?

When the beautiful numerical or geometric properties of the number π lures far more men than women, who long to get intimate with mathematics’s most famous constant—when rational male figures get pretty excited, with some even experiencing occasional ahas, whenever the irrational and sexy π reveals more of her hidden properties.

The masculine and feminine subtle behaviors exhibited by the number π makes math educators and recreational mathematicians quietly ask: “Is pi male or female?”

by Fasters December 19, 2021

Cannamath

When parents rely on cannabis to slow down their stressful life, so that they are better able to help their oft-math-anxious children cope with the mathematical challenges and frustrations they face in school—for example, they could help them with their math homework or project, which also provides them an opportunity to bond and engage with their kids during their formative years.

The legalization of cannabis to more US states would allow more parents to embrace cannamath, thus enabling them to get more involved in the mathematics education of their children, by being more present, more patient, and more creative with them.

by Fasters January 1, 2022

Less Is More

When an item or product costs more than a similar one with less sugar or salt content, which seems to suggest that having lesser or fewer of something is more inconvenient or harder to produce, or making a decision to be healthier is dearer—could it also be a mere marketing gimmick to lure health-conscious freaks?

A six-pack of Chrysanthemum Tea costs $1.95, but a similar one with lower sugar content costs $2.30; two isotonic bottle drinks cost $3.95, while the ones with zero sugar cost $4.40—aren’t these two cases prove that “less is more”?

by Fasters September 8, 2022

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

Buffalo Pi

When someone boastfully claimed to have used the value of the decimal number π to at least a dozen digits in a computation to sound more accurate, when three or four digits would have sufficed.

Unless they are a rocket scientist or quantum physicist, laypersons who pridefully tell others that they had used buffalo pi in a practical math problem are simply blowing their own horn.

by Fasters January 2, 2022