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A cyclone or hurricane that is named after a famous mathematician—like math, its presence never fails to instill fear in the general population.
Pascal is expected to hit the Philippines by early Monday morning—which happens to be a public holiday—after the mathematical typhoon had caused havoc in southern China.
The name for a little-known FBI unit that unprovenly looks into the corrupt and criminal practices of the 45th President of the United States and his cronies, particularly his shady or bogus businesses worldwide—they want to uncover suspected decades-long money laundering, tax evasion, and illegal foreign donation from rogue politicians or dictators.
Besides probing his business malpractices, and political collusions and treasons with foreign powers, Trumpol investigators are also looking at alleged prostitution or escort activities the ex-president was involved in before he moved into the White House.
When the public announcement of the proof of a famous unsolved problem on π turned out to be short-lived, because the result was later found to contain grave errors.
Mathematicians worldwide were excited to hear that the number (π + e) has been proved to be transcendental (i.e., its value can’t be the root of an algebraic equation with rational coefficients), but the news was nothing but a pi moment.
An obese- or obscene-looking quadrilateral with zero parallel sides—also known as “trumpezoid” in the Commonwealth countries.
What Americans call a trumpezium, the British call a trumpezoid, and vice versa.
When people blindly or religiously follow the directives of the authorities to wear a face mask at all times, as two barriers are debatably better than one—the sick person wears one, and the well person also wears one to protect themselves and others regardless of where they are in public at any time of the day, and whether they are alone or not.
Are these examples of mask mania? Cab drivers sitting in car by themselves wearing masks. People walking their dogs outdoors wearing masks, and nobody near them. People wearing masks at home, because they want to protect their pets.
When Chinese at their annual family reunion dinner held before or during the Lunar New Year of the Ox are banned from screaming auspicious or superstitious phrases at each other to minimize the odds of corona infection, but are encouraged to play pre-recorded good-luck or prosperity messages instead.
In the Year of the Covidox, dozens of diners had their non-Chinese neighbors report them to the police for noise pollution, and for failing to wear a mask while broadcasting their deafening auspicious greetings.
When a country registers not even one local, foreign, or imported case of corona infection or death.
When a vaccine became available, how long would most developed countries have to wait before they’d celebrate Day Zero?