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Saturday, September 26, 2015

Flag for 5O or "Five-Oh"


The 5-O flag is composed of the colours blue and red.  Since blue is the 5th colour rainbow, the blue area in the beginning represents 5.  Since 'O' is the '15th letter in the alphabet it is composed of the first and fifth colours of the rainbow which are red and blue.  In our case the fly diagonal side represents the flag coloured letter 'O'.  Coincidentally US police units flash red and yellow lights on their vehicles when they are in pursuit. 

Flag for 86 - Getting 86'ed


You can declared something 86'ed or become 86'ed from an establishment - namely kicked out or banned from entry.  Now you can wave a flag to indicate the state of being Eighty-Sixed.  In the restaurant biz, instead of saying you're out of something people were 86'ed on onion rings or other type of food.

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Metric Number Flag for 10191 - from the Dune Movie


The number 10,191 is mentioned in the 1984 sci-fi classic Dune.  It is during this year that the crap hits the fan and chosen one of the galaxy arises. Here is the Metric Number flag for this year.  It is composed of the colours red, white, pink, black and blue.

Flag for the Chuck Norris of Numbers - #73


The number flag for 73 is composed of two colours violet and yellow.  The upper hoist half that is violet represents 7 while the lower fly yellow represents 3. The yellow star in violet is a contrast indicator that coincidentally matches the ones column place value of the colour 3, which is yellow. Since 73 is only has two place values, only one star is shown. This number was dubbed the "Chuck Norris" of numbers due to its metaphysical harmonic associations.  So what perceived properties make is so?

1. It is the 21st Prime Number
2. Its mirror 27 is the 12th Prime Number
3. 21 is the product of 7 times 3
4. It's binary is a Palindrome, 1001001

Sheldon forgot to mention:

5. Messier Object 73 or M73 is an open cluster of stars in Aquarius but NGC73 is barred galaxy in Cetus
6. There are 73 books in the Catholic Bible
7. On CB Radio a 10-73 indicates a police speed trap
8. In the 1940 Superbowl the Redskins beat the Bears 73-0 the largest NFL margin ever
9. I-73 was an Imperial Japanese Navy Sub that was the first sub sunk by a US Naval Sub, and yes I-73 participated at the attack on Pearl Harbor
10 Interstate I-73 connects the coast of North Carolina to the north coast of Michigan
11. Jim Parsons who plays Sheldon Cooper on The Big Bang Theory show was born in 1973
12.  Finally, in Morse Code 73 is also a palindrome: _ _ ...... _ _ and can mean best rearguards

 

Metric Number Flag for 1436



The number flag for 1436 uses the colours red, white, blue, indigo, green and yellow.  The first band represents one, the second green one is four, the third yellow is three and the final indigo is six.  This is also the number for the current Islamic year.

Metric Number Flag for 5776


The number flag for 5776 uses the colours red, white, blue, purple and yellow.  Coincidentally the Jewish Year count, since the creation event, is of this pattern.


Sunday, September 20, 2015

Flag for 1,234,567,890 Billion


Yup, that's right, a flag for One Billion, Two-Hundred-Thirty-Four Million, Five-Hundred-Sixty-Seven Thousand, and Eight-Hundred-Ninety.  This flag utilizes all the colours of the Metric Flag System.  Note the beginning and last number are always shaped like triangles, while the middle numbers are always parallelograms.