What is Mathturbation?
1.
What pseudoscientists, cranks and charlatans use to "prove" their self-indulgent theories.
The nutjob used mathturbation to show that the Bible contains an encrypted message warning of the September 11th attacks.
2.
(n.) The act of deriving equations just for the sake of deriving them, at no apparent gain to the student.
In verb form, to mathturbate is to perform such menial mathematical labor.
mathturbatory: characterized by excessive mathturbation
"The professor spent three hours deriving the equation on the board because he thought it would help us understand the concept better; really, however, he just confused us with his senseless mathturbation."
"The homework problem required hours of mathturbation, with the end result being a simple identity that appears in the index of every text."
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3.
Masturbating to some math, ie, Algrbra, Trigonometry, calculous, ect. Ususally for nerds, or when you cum while doing a complex math problem
John preformed mathturbation during his math final today
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