"mathbabble" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From math + babble. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|math|babble}} math + babble Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} mathbabble (uncountable)
  1. Incomprehensible talk about mathematical equations. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-mathbabble-en-noun-oHai-A-C Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1992 October 15, Chad Mattingly, “Number theory”, in alt.tv.northern-exp (Usenet):",
          "text": "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\":[…]",
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          "ref": "1993 November 11, Dan Johnson, “Taligent fails”, in comp.sys.mac.advocacy (Usenet):",
          "text": "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.)",
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          "ref": "1996 October 1, Rick, “KNOCK IT OFF.......please!”, in alt.recovery.aa (Usenet):",
          "text": ">Oh, my Gawwwd. Techno-babble strikes again! / >Rachel / Actually it's mathbabble, a much more refined dialect.",
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          "ref": "1997 October 25, ia...@nanosecond.com, “Prove TURNAROUND yourself (you can do this at home!)”, in rec.gambling.blackjack (Usenet):",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2002 January 30, Lumina Dragon, “Electrostatics”, in rec.games.computer.ultima.dragons (Usenet):",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2006 September 8, Lester Zick, “How big is infinity?”, in sci.math (Usenet):",
          "text": "I'm not talking \"truth values\" \"atomic statements\" and \"truth table\" mathbabble here.",
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          "ref": "2007, Tim Harrower, Inside Reporting: A Practical Guide to the Craft of Journalism, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 84:",
          "text": "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,[…]",
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          "ref": "2017 June 6, FromTheRafters, “VeeCrypt Encryption Scheme - Cryptanalysis.”, in sci.crypt (Usenet):",
          "text": "His mathbabble is as bad as his cryptobabble.",
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