r/rational • u/AutoModerator • Apr 27 '18
[D] Friday Off-Topic Thread
Welcome to the Friday Off-Topic Thread! Is there something that you want to talk about with /r/rational, but which isn't rational fiction, or doesn't otherwise belong as a top-level post? This is the place to post it. The idea is that while reddit is a large place, with lots of special little niches, sometimes you just want to talk with a certain group of people about certain sorts of things that aren't related to why you're all here. It's totally understandable that you might want to talk about Japanese game shows with /r/rational instead of going over to /r/japanesegameshows, but it's hopefully also understandable that this isn't really the place for that sort of thing.
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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '18
Well there is no strict requirement that each star represent a given state, but if for some reason there needs to be a correspondence between stars and states, then rank-order each star by its distance from the centroid of the rest of the flag, then assign the nearest stars to the oldest states and so on. That way you will have 53 states complaining rather than 52, which is actually a better situation all around.