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Mathematical Virginity

You lose it when you experience your first Aha! moment—when you feel like parading yourself naked after being struck by an insight, or upon solving a difficult math problem.

Billy lost his mathematical virginity after he found an intuitive proof to the Pythagorean theorem.

by MathPlus October 04, 2017


WWCD

Short for “What would Ms. Corona do?” To just infect her victims, who have been continually or unreasonably speaking ill of her, and in some cases to also end their lives prematurely, especially when she too is having a bad day roaming the planet.

Ms. Corona has been pretty merciful or forgiving via-à-vis those who scapegoat her for any troubles plaguing the world today—she’s rather tickled listening to all those petty WWCDs floating around her ears 24/7.

by MathPlus April 25, 2021


Void Deck

Singapore’s empty zones on the ground floor of apartment blocks, where children play in the mornings and senior citizens play Chinese chess or complain about unpopular or unfair government policies at dusk, aimed at encouraging communal interaction among the bored residents.

To what extent have void decks in the “fine” city of Singapore strengthened social cohesion and religious harmony among the different races in the last half century? Does it sound like another socially engineered attempt by the authorities to maintaining peace and order in the multicultural and multiracial island-state?

by MathPlus October 12, 2021


Coviderate

Being informed and updated about the facts and fake news about the coronavirus and its deadlier variants, especially the bogus corona cures and conspiracies—the lies, damn lies, and Trump lies on Covid-19.

Had his diehard supporters been coviderate, the trumped-up stories concocted or tweeted by the ex-president would have been trashed straightaway, thus preventing thousands of infections and deaths.

by MathPlus June 16, 2021


Fakeful

The opposite of being fact-based. When someone entertains opinions or views that are not true, and deliberately disseminates them to mislead their unquestioning or uncritical audience to push their own agenda.

Rejected Donald J. Trump was such a fakeful character who led tens of millions of his followers to blindly or uncritically put their faith in him, by lying that he’s robbed of an election victory due to rampant fraudulent ballots in states where he lost to his political opponent.

by MathPlus January 28, 2021


Samurai Math

Shortcuts that short-circuit hours of learning and practicing formal or traditional problem-solving methods to solving certain types of math problems.

Instead of spending hundreds of hours mastering the basics of school algebra, mature students or working adults with no formal education could be taught some quick-and-kill Samurai math methods, such as the Sakamoto method and the Stack Model Method.

by MathPlus August 22, 2017


Bat Math

Brain-unfriendly or fiendish math questions that leverage on the public’s mixed attitude vis-à-vis the oft-feared bat, which has so far received bad publicity or negative press in the aftermath of unproven claims that it was the vector for the coronavirus pandemic.

Two examples of bat math are:
a) Today is Friday the 13th. Trump’s spiritual guide recommends that he should drink the blood of a bat 666 days from today to live a "normal” life free from nightmares and demonic attacks. What day of the week would he perform that dreaded ritual?
b) Given that 🦠 + 🦇= 76 and 🦠 × 🦇 = 19, what is the value of 1/🦠 + 1/🦇?
Answers: a) Saturday b) 4.

by MathPlus April 17, 2021