Everything you need to know about "require" in NodeJS and maintaining it’s cache.

Wed Jan 01 2020

This article explores how the Node.js module system & CommonJS works and how to effectively require files in a server running on Node JS

Fascinating Paradoxes

Wed Jul 27 2011

Mathematicians and Physicist sometimes confront problems having two statements that are both true but in general,both cannot be true at the same time.These self-contradicting statements forms a paradox.I first read about them in Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braidand and since then I got more interested in these types of problems.Lets have a look at some of the most enthralling mathematical paradoxes!

Eratosthenes and the Earth's circumference

Tue Jul 19 2011

In my last blog I talked about this Greek mathematician Eratosthenes and how he worked the famous “Sieve of Eratosthenes” which was the first efficient way to determine which numbers are primes.The sieve is still used in modern number theory.But what still amazes mathematicians is how he was able to calculate the size of the Earth without leaving Egypt which was remakably accurate

Prime Number Sieves

Fri Jul 15 2011

Well,we all know what’s prime number,a whole number greater than 1 whose factors are either one or itself but in this blog I will be writing about Prime Number Sieves which refers to prime number generating algorithms.

Concept of Xiralback

Wed Jul 13 2011

We all have played with toys in our childhood,these toys were generally action figures,barbie dolls,racing cars and as we reached adolescense the toys that we used to get also matured a bit from mere action figures to scientific toys teaching us something new.However my first experience to such a toy was when i visited an eye specialist.

Amazing Rhombic Dodecahedron!

Wed Jul 06 2011

The work of the Greek polymath Plato has kept millions of people busy for millennia. A few among them have been mathematicians who have obsessed about Platonic solids, a class of geometric forms that are highly regular and are commonly found in nature.