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United Arab Emirates vs Iraq

Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%. The app files them together as Pan-Arab Colors.

United Arab Emirates and Iraq are 66% apart. A typical pair of flags is 68% apart.

Where the difference is

Each colour on United Arab Emirates, matched with the nearest colour on Iraq, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.

  • #000000#0000000
  • #00843d#cd1125205
  • #ffffff#ffffff0
  • #c8102eonly on United Arab Emirates

How they are put together

Both were measured as horizontal bands.

United Arab Emirates runs green, white and black from the top. Iraq runs red, white and black from the top.

United Arab Emirates is flown 2.00 : 1 and Iraq 1.50 : 1.

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What each one carries

Iraq carries writing. United Arab Emirates carries nothing at all.

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 United Arab Emirates and Iraq score 167.7 out of 255, which is the 66% 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.

Also close

The flags the pipeline measured nearest to these two.