mathbabble

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English

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Etymology

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From math +‎ babble.

Noun

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mathbabble (uncountable)

  1. Incomprehensible talk about mathematical equations.
    • 1992 October 15, Chad Mattingly, “Number theory”, in alt.tv.northern-exp (Usenet):
      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": []
    • 1993 November 11, Dan Johnson, “Taligent fails”, in comp.sys.mac.advocacy (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.)
    • 1996 October 1, Rick, “KNOCK IT OFF.......please!”, in alt.recovery.aa (Usenet):
      >Oh, my Gawwwd. Techno-babble strikes again! / >Rachel / Actually it's mathbabble, a much more refined dialect.
    • 1997 October 25, ia...@nanosecond.com, “Prove TURNAROUND yourself (you can do this at home!)”, in rec.gambling.blackjack (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.
    • 1998 March 24, Peter Rottengatter, “AES evnt_button() problems”, in comp.sys.atari.programmer (Usenet):
      This is a lot of mathbabble, in more common language it is this : []
    • 2002 January 30, Lumina Dragon, “Electrostatics”, in rec.games.computer.ultima.dragons (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.
    • 2006 September 8, Lester Zick, “How big is infinity?”, in sci.math (Usenet):
      I'm not talking "truth values" "atomic statements" and "truth table" mathbabble here.
    • 2007, Tim Harrower, Inside Reporting: A Practical Guide to the Craft of Journalism, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 84:
      Otherwise, you’re forced to trust the politicians, pollsters and bean-counters who feed you mathbabble like this: In 2004, imports rose by 12 percent and the company earned $22 million, a 26 percent increase over 2003, []
    • 2017 June 6, FromTheRafters, “VeeCrypt Encryption Scheme - Cryptanalysis.”, in sci.crypt (Usenet):
      His mathbabble is as bad as his cryptobabble.