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British Indian Ocean Territory vs Sint Maarten
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%.
British Indian Ocean Territory and Sint Maarten are 48% apart. A typical pair of flags is 68% apart.
Where the difference is
Each colour on British Indian Ocean Territory, matched with the nearest colour on Sint Maarten, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #ffffff#ffffff0
- #012169#012a8730
- #c8102e#dc171d20
The colour that separates them is a blue: #012169 against #012a87, 30 apart.
How they are put together
Nothing about how they are built was measured the same on both.
Only Sint Maarten: horizontal bands.
What each one carries
British Indian Ocean Territory carries a tree and a crown. Sint Maarten carries a sun, a coat of arms, writing, a shield, a bird, a building, a flower, and a wreath.
How the number was arrived at
Both flags are drawn at 64×48 and cut into squares 8 across. Each square is averaged to one colour, and the score is the worst single square, so two flags that agree everywhere except one corner are as far apart as that corner, which is the right answer to a question about whether anybody could tell them apart. 0 is the same picture; the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
On that scale British Indian Ocean Territory and Sint Maarten score 121.6 out of 255, which is the 48% above.
It cannot see everything. Both flags are stretched to the same box, so Indonesia and Monaco, which differ in nothing else, are measured as their reds rather than as identical. The look-alikes page sets out the rest.
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The flags the pipeline measured nearest to these two.