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in reply to Re^2: How many colors does a rainbow have?
in thread How many colors does a rainbow have?

1 rainbow = infinity - 1

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Re^4: How many colors does a rainbow have?
by wilsond (Scribe) on Jan 27, 2009 at 08:55 UTC

    Yeah, something like that. The Red + Violet thing reduces it from infinity, in my opinion, to something near infinity. Maybe it's INF-1, or even less, but not infinity.


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      INFINITY-1 is not less than INFINITY.

      sas

        I didn't mean it literally.


        While I ask a lot of Win32 questions, I hate Windows with a passion. That's the problem with writing a cross-platform program. I'm a Linux user myself. I wish more people were.
        If you want to do evil, science provides the most powerful weapons to do evil; but equally, if you want to do good, science puts into your hands the most powerful tools to do so.
        - Richard Dawkins