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Now for some fun Douglas Hofstadter self-reference.

Challenge:

Can someone find a password that describes the colors it makes?

e.g. "redgreenblue" shows red, green, and blue



"blueorangepink" works.

I found it by typing in a random password, then using as a password the colors from that password, and repeating until I got the self-referential password. I can't think of a good reason why this should work, though. And you might argue that the third color there is really purple, not pink.

New question: lots of countries have flags which consist of three stripes. Is there a country whose chromahash is its flag?


"multicoloured" :-)

Not to just be a smart-ass, I tried a few others, but couldn't find any that worked well.


startpinkendgreen

Still trying to find one for all three colours. (This is fun! :P)


Some close ones: "same", "differentgreens".


"wildblueyonder" produces a blue bar on the far right.

"wild blue yonder" produces two blue bars on the left.


"orangegreen"




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