Fasters's definitions

On Cloud Pi

The latest e-commerce shiny object, where math educators’ memories of Pi Day events are stored in the cloud and can be downloaded for a fee—charges are based on a customer satisfaction index (CSI), which ranks each memory or story in proportion to the degree of pleasure or satisfaction it brings.

With schools unlikely to open for another year, which by then the pandemic is predicted to have subsided, being on cloud pi is the closest experience for math students and teachers to vicariously be on cloud nine on the most important date in the mathematics calendar.

by Fasters March 9, 2022

!

A “?” that has been straightened out—what awaits those who continue to trust and honor God in spite of the circumstances or events they don’t understand in their lives.

God’s goodness will turn your ?s into !s, be it an anointing, healing, or upgrading, because your problems are often not setbacks but set-ups for your next level of growth.

by Fasters April 7, 2022

Tokenized Math

When math collectibles (coins & stamps, vintage puzzles & toys, out-of-print books & classics, and antique measuring instruments & calculators), math cards, urban math definitions, IMO or Fields medals, NFTs, memes, and the like can be broken up into smaller parts that can be sold individually, thus making fractional ownership of both digital or physical assets possible.

Guesstimate how much the global tokenized math business could be worth if collectors started to trade their precious assets in the metaverse.

by Fasters July 16, 2022

Piece of Pi

A math question that is considered so easy to solve, or a math paper that turns out to be as easy as pie—a no-brainer even for those who are anxious or petrified about certain brain-unfriendly school or college math topics.

Most of the 2021 grades 1–5 math exam papers in certain US red states were a piece of pi for the a large proportion of students during the Covid-19 pandemic.

by Fasters January 23, 2022

Murder by Pi

When a gifted child’s Xmas wish for Santa Claus is to be rewarded with the last digit of the number π, which prompted the Donor-in-Chief to commit a “mathematical crime,” because he couldn’t fulfill the child’s “Christmaths” wish.

A few billion children worldwide would miss their Christmas gift this year, because Father Christmas had been charged for murder by pi—he’d first be spending the twelve days of Christmas behind bars before being flown to a North Korean or Siberian prison.

by Fasters April 18, 2022

Pi Politics

The use of different values for the irrational number π to poke fun at the differing polarized views parroted by mostly hypothetical or morally bankrupt politicians in the land of senseless deaths, which occur practically every day due to zero public ban on guns.

An example of pi politics among ultra-MAGA voters is:

Trump: π = 22/7 (because it is the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of any circle).

Pence: π = 3 (because the Bible tells me so).

DeSantis: π = x, where x is awaiting final approval by “woke” censors.

by Fasters May 7, 2023

Palmematics

When the lines and curves on someone’s palm are expressed as an equation or formula—they often resemble popular curves that are linear, quadratic, exponential, and logarithmic.

The 8-year-old boy’s knowledge of palmematics impressed his mathematician father, who wondered whether he might have blessed with a precocious son.

by Fasters June 27, 2022