£ Flag

£ Flag in ASCII

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This £ Flag is a vertical tribar of red, blue, and indigo.  Why?  Because the colours are reflective of the order of the rainbow as established by Issac Newton.  In truth there are nearly an infinite number of colours in the rainbow but the dominant way of looking at white light broken up by a prism is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.  Consequently, each number is assigned its corresponding value as determined by this natural law order.  Thus 1, 5, and 6 is the order represented, which is tied to the ASCII code of for the £ key.

Oddly blue is one of those colours whose labels is not quite fixed, much as was the colour orange 1000 years ago.  Previously in ancient England red and orange were one in the same colour.  Today blue/sky blue/cyan/navy blue are in that same position.  Some people know the difference, but in common speech its easy to get them confused.  Cyan/baby blue is the lighter hue of blue after green.  While navy blue/dark blue/indigo is the darker version of blue just before violet.

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