Fasters's definitions

As Deadly as Pi

When Pi, the life-threatening Covid-19 variant of concern that came after the variant Omicron, was marginalized by WHO, as it fears that the politically incorrect or mathematically blasphemous label might unprovenly trigger a global outcry or protest among millions of math educators for whatever unspoken or irrational reasons.

From 2020–2023, many different types of Covid-19 variants were floating freely on the planet, but none was as deadly as Pi.

by Fasters May 23, 2023

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

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

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

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

What’s the Temperature of Pi?

A synesthetic question that would best be posed to idiot savants, whose varying answers would probably be based on their degree of autism, or to some math nerds suffering from schizophrenia.

Some math geeks turned psychologists think that they too could figure out the answer to “What’s the temperature of pi?” without being afflicted with any mental disorders.

by Fasters December 19, 2021

Pi Plate

When a car plate number displays the first few digits of the decimal number π—the question that pops up in a geeky onlooker’s mind is the amount the car owner paid for this private plate.

A geeky billionaire was spotted driving a Porsche with a pi plate on the streets of Paris.

by Fasters March 24, 2023