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English
Etymology
From math + babble.
Noun
mathbabble (uncountable)
- 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, [email protected], “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.