"Pro"s and "Con"s
Plague of Locus(ts)
Not Ready for Primetime
Nonstandard Operations
It's a Math Word Too!
100

Similar triangles have angles that are this term.

What is congruent?

100

The locusts are swarming about a flower in a plane so that they are all equidistant from the center of the flower forming this shape.

What is a circle?

100

A Fibonacci prime is a Fibonacci number that is also prime. The first three are 2, 3, and 5, while this number is the fifth Fibonacci prime.

What is 89?

100

This is the value of 6 ♡ (8 ♡ 10) where m ♡ n = m/2 - 2n.

What is 35?

100

This 1999 film describes the future as a simulated reality where human body heat is used as an energy source by sentient machines while human life is an elaborate deception.

What is The Matrix? (matrix)
200

Similar triangles have sides that are this term.

What is proportional?

200
A locust walks along the ground and makes a turn around a tree near a straight creek. Its path, which is equidistant from the center of the tree and the creek, is this curve.

What is a parabola?

200

A semiprime number is a natural number that is the product of two (not necessarily distinct) prime numbers. The first three are 4, 6, and 9, while this number is the seventh semiprime number.

What is 21?

200

This is the value of 1 ⋔ (2 ⋔ 3) where p ⋔ q = p^q + q^p.

What is 18?

200

The grassy area between two sides of a divided roadway that is used to separate opposing traffic.

What is a median?
300

The multiplicative inverse of a real number.

What is the reciprocal?

300

The locusts emerge from the ground and arrange themselves so that each locust's height above the ground is equal to the distance from a fixed vertical line. If the locusts occupy every such point, they form this shape.

What is a line?

300

A balanced prime is a prime number that is the arithmetic mean of nearest primes above and below it. The first one is 5 since (3 + 7)/2 = 5 while this number is the second one.

What is 53?

300

This is the value of 7 ◻ (5 ◻ 3) where x ◻ y = sqrt(x^2 - y^2).

What is sqrt(33)?

300
The height of an object or point in relation to sea level or ground level.
What is altitude?
400

A statement believed to be true but not yet proven.

What is a conjecture (or proposition)?

400
The locusts land in the xy-plane so that all of them are at points (x, y) where |x| + |y| = 1. They form this shape.

What is a square?

400

A twin prime is a prime number that is either 2 less or 2 more than another prime number. These numbers make the sixth pair of twin primes.

What are 41 and 43?

400

This is the reduced value of 3 ◇ (2 ◇ 4) where g ◇ h = g/h + h/g.

What is 61/30?

400

Without, or deprived of, normal mental clarity or sound judgment.

What is irrational?
500

How the statement "If a quadrilateral is not a rectangle, then it is not a square" relates to the statement "If a quadrilateral is a square, then it is a rectangle."

What is the contrapositive?

500
The locusts pass through a row of corn so that they are always equidistant from the ends of the row. Their path forms this in relation to the row of corn.

What is a perpendicular bisector?

500
The even perfect numbers may be matched one-to-one with these types of primes. The current largest-known prime number (found in October 2024) is one of these. 

What are the Mersenne primes (or primes of the form 2^n - 1)?

500

This is the reduced value of 2 ⋈ (3 ⋈ 4) where a ⋈ b = ab/(a+b).

What is 12/13?

500

This is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense and has been described as a "weird-looking building...four walls and a spare."

What is the Pentagon? (pentagon)

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