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Re: Indigo squared

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From: Doug Cook
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 06:08
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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.

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

	-Doug

Doug Cook, cook@sgi.com		Software Engineer	 Silicon Graphics, Inc.

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