NationStates Jolt Archive


Cash Prize for Anyone That Can Recognize Our National Flag

Irrational Numbers
19-09-2004, 16:38
To anyone who can recognize what our Confederacy's national flag represents, our nation has set aside $1000 USD to be wired to the nation who's ruler can tell what the confederacy's flag is a representation of.

This is more of a random contest then anything else, here's the link to our nation: http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/target=display_nation/nation=irrational_numbers
Averitas
20-09-2004, 01:43
I assume the flag is alluding to an equation founded by Archemedes?
Irrational Numbers
20-09-2004, 02:26
I assume the flag is alluding to an equation founded by Archemedes?

Not a bad guess. Just a few years earlier and towards the Pharos Lighthouse, and you'll be dead on.
Big Men Whores
20-09-2004, 20:03
It is the method Euclid used to draw an equilateral triangle from a given line.

Also the first proposition in Elements.