mathbabble
nounEtymology From math + babble.
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Incomprehensible talk about mathematical equations.
- I agree that it was nice to see a woman of the mathematical persuasion, and although Chris' patented MathBabble(tm) did its job and completely nauseated me and thus prevented any enjoyment of seeing a living breathing mathbabe on NEXP, I was surprised to hear about her new-agey theory that if she could just calculate pi to a few more godzillion places, she'd get "a message from beyond" or whatever, since this is the kernel of the plot of the Carl Sagan novel "Contact":[…]1992 October 15, Chad Mattingly, “Number theory”, in alt.tv.northern-exp (Usenet):
- No, I mean wrt to a menu _bar_. If you move the menbar you'd loose the backtop, and it would slow down a whole lot. (at least, it seems to for me. And my mathbabble says it should. This is what's so wrong with Window's, Motif and OS/2 menubars.)1993 November 11, Dan Johnson, “Taligent fails”, in comp.sys.mac.advocacy (Usenet):
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- >Oh, my Gawwwd. Techno-babble strikes again! / >Rachel / Actually it's mathbabble, a much more refined dialect.1996 October 1, Rick, “KNOCK IT OFF.......please!”, in alt.recovery.aa (Usenet):
- All the mathbabble in the world won't make the existence of trends into a lie: they are an essential factor in all games of chance, and the player who ignores them or pretends they don't exist does so at great peril.1997 October 25, ia...@nanosecond.com, “Prove TURNAROUND yourself (you can do this at home!)”, in rec.gambling.blackjack (Usenet):
- This is a lot of mathbabble, in more common language it is this :[…]1998 March 24, Peter Rottengatter, “AES evnt_button() problems”, in comp.sys.atari.programmer (Usenet):
- I recognized enough of his mathbabble to know that he was dealing with integrals, and integrals are something which I do not recall as being introduced prior to Calculus math courses.2002 January 30, Lumina Dragon, “Electrostatics”, in rec.games.computer.ultima.dragons (Usenet):