Last time, we saw how doing a single extra instruction made our code 3 times faster. But less code in a loop should surely always be faster… right? Consider these two pieces of code doing binary ...

Less code means faster code… right? Take these two pieces of code for example Hmmm, clearly the first one is doing more work. Surely, memset-ing to 0 will make us slower, right? Well, on...

Still in progress. It is ironic that the British even looted the word ‘loot’ from us! The British conquest of India was the invasion and destruction of a high civilization by a trading co...

Money doesn’t grow on trees. However, this is because trees cannot keep up with the printing press! The scam of the modern banking system Below, I describe the steps our modern banking system and...

History of the first fiat coin falling Around the same time India began minting coins, other regions, including Lidya, Europe, and China, began minting gold and silver coins of equal weight, makin...

We use the terms money and currency interchangeably in daily life. But these two are quite dissimilar. The crisp ₹100 bill in your pocket represents currency. The majority of people spend their ent...

Welcome to my first blog post. I hope to write many more blogs that will probably cover topics ranging from history, facts about coding, random trivia, or anything else interesting I come across. ...