November 2011

WordPress URL Shortening: An Interesting Consequence

Long post and page URLs can be annoying. Take an example: https://gauravtiwari.org/2011/02/06/derivative-of-x-squared-is-2x-or-x-where-is-the-fallacy/ (one of the most popular posts from my blog). Will you like to write these (about) a hundred characters? Or will you prefer URL shorteners, like bit.ly or wp.me, instead? As a third option, you may say, "I can just copy and paste the URLs to…

Numbers - The Basic Introduction

If mathematics was a language, logic was the grammar, numbers should have been the alphabet. There are many types of numbers we use in mathematics, but at a broader aspect we may categorize them in two categories: 1. Countable Numbers 2. Uncountable Numbers The numbers which can be counted in nature are called Countable Numbers…