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In article <1992Nov11.143856.6394@psych.toronto.edu> christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
<>christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
<>>
<>>You know, it always amazed me that people needed a mnemonic for the order
<>>of colors in the spectrum.  Their order always seemed pretty intuitive
<>>to me (e.g., what comes between red and yellow? orange of course. Would
<>>anyone think blue?).

Quite.  (And yellow between orange and green also seems intuitive to me.
Would anyone put anything else there?)

<I was sent e-mail by someone who said the mnemonic is needed because
<color are psychologically circular (e.g. red-violet-blue) and Roy G Biv
<reminds you what the endpoints are.

If you have heard of infra_red_ and ultra_violet_ rays, as I'm sure
everybody has, you won't need any sophisticated memorisation aid to
know that the endpoints can't be green and orange.  Or?

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