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- From: cook@bebop.esd.sgi.com (Doug Cook)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
- Subject: Re: Indigo squared
- Message-ID: <ve7rqe8@zola.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 06:08:52 GMT
- References: <C1JD78.Ex9@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
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- In article <C1JD78.Ex9@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>, wyllie@helios.physics.utoronto.ca writes:
- > I only have one question....
- > How come the new INDIGO is GREEN?????
- >
- > Okay, you can argue that it's sort of an Aquamarine colour,
- > greeny blue or bluey green, but Indigo (at least the last
- > time I looked at mine) is purple!
-
- I hate to point this out, but the truth is, we had ya going
- the whole time. Indigo is in fact a color of blue, not purple.
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- in.di.go \'in-di-.go-\ n or indigos or indigoes [It dial., fr. L indicum,
- fr. Gk indikon, fr. neut. of indikos pl X Indic, fr. Indos India 1a: a blue
- vat dye obtained from plants (as indigo plants) by alteration of the
- indican present 1b: the principal coloring matter C16H10N2O2 of natural
- indigo usu. synthesized as a blue powder with a coppery luster from
- synthetic indoxyl 1c: any of several blue vat dyes derived from or closely
- related to indigo 2: a variable color averaging a dark grayish blue
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- -Doug
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- Doug Cook, cook@sgi.com Software Engineer Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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