Gabriel Goh Hao Xiang

Category: recreational math

  • Paris 2024 Medal Tallies

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    Gabriel Goh
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    Americans use Fahrenheit to measure temperature. Americans use miles to measure distance. Apparently, Americans use a unique olympics medal tally as well. While basically every country ranks nations first by their gold medal count, and tiebreak by silvers (then bronzes), many US news outlets like to sort by total number of medals won. For those…

  • The Story of SEIF

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    Gabriel Goh
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    (And how I accidentally “proposed” an IMO5) It’s been almost two and a half years since, and yet if you asked me for my most unique and memorable experience, there is a good chance I would still mention this story. It takes more than a healthy dose of idealism for 16-year-old me to wake up…

  • Designing digital camouflage

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    Gabriel Goh
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    I’ve just finished three weeks of confinement in National Service, and I don’t really want to talk about that so. It took me around a week to realise that every single uniform (and bag, and helmet) has a different camouflage design. Uniforms are not uniform. And that perplexed me a lot, because if they were…