Sin°tax

Sin°tax: noun. The taxation for the use of the sine rule. Not to be confused with syntax, the fundamental rules of a language and sintax, the taxation for sinning initiated by the Catholic Church last Tuesday. The sin°tax, which still exists to this day, was introduced thousands of years ago in the days of Pythagoras. The story of the history behind the word´s creation was recorded by a Greek chronicler and says the following: “When coming up with triangle theorems, Pythagoras was sponsored by three men: Cyrus Cosine, Stephanos Sine and Timon Tangent. While Mr Cosine and Mr Tangent kept their financial promises they gave to Pythagoras, the third of the triple, Stephanos Sine, fell into serious debt as a result of which he had to pay Pythagoras a set amount of money per year instead of an immediate transaction.” Since the amount of interest was fittingly settled as the sine of 0 per year, the descendants of Stephanos Sine were paying off the debt until 1212, when the last of them died of diphtheria. Today, the descendants of Pythagoras (who clearly survived the diphtheria epidemic) are making up for their previous loss by charging calculator companies the sin°tax again.