The Most Mathematical Flag - Numberphile
We use the constitution of Nepal to re-create its distinctive, double-triangular flag. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Nepal has never won a full Olympic medal (though...
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BRADY HARAN: I'm in the middle of London on Regent Street-- in case you couldn't tell with all those red buses going by. We want to talk about something a little bit Olympics. We're going to talk to you about flags. There's loads of flags up the street there, but we want to talk about one in particular. It's one you don't often see at the Games, because, well, this country's never actually won a medal. But their flag? Very mathematical. DR. JAMES GRIME: We got chatting about countries and their flags and things. And I thought, well, what sort of maths could we do with that? And we could look at the symmetry of flags and which has the most symmetrical flag. Then I thought, no. I know what the most mathematical flag is. ...
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BRADY HARAN: I'm in the middle of London on Regent Street-- in case you couldn't tell with all those red buses going by. We want to talk about something a little bit Olympics. We're going to talk to you about flags. There's loads of flags up the street there, but we want to talk about one in particular. It's one you don't often see at the Games, because, well, this country's never actually won a medal. But their flag? Very mathematical. DR. JAMES GRIME: We got chatting about countries and their flags and things. And I thought, well, what sort of maths could we do with that? And we could look at the symmetry of flags and which has the most symmetrical flag. Then I thought, no. I know what the most mathematical flag is. ...
