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@ponderable said
Hello Rusty. I forgot to Mention "statistically" of Course there are women who can't distinguish some Colours. And of Course there are women who do not know the correct word for a given Colour....

How many colours are there?

The best answer is infinity!
Careful measurements of our visual system’s best performance have been
made by psychophysicists (people who study human responses, like seeing
color, to things in the world, like light). They have shown that we can see
about 1000 levels of light-dark, 100 levels of red-green, and 100 levels of
yellow-blue for a single viewing condition in a laboratory. This means that
the total number of colors we can see is about 1000 x 100 x 100 = 10,000,000
(10 million). A computer displays about 16.8 million colors to create fullcolor pictures, really more than necessary for most situations.
However, the answer is not quite so simple. What color looks like is greatly
affected by the viewing conditions. These conditions include the color of
the lighting, the amount of lighting, and other colors in the scene. Colors
also appear in different modes when they appear on different objects such
as surfaces, light sources, or within volumes. Different people also have
slight differences in the way they see color.
Since we can see at least 10-million colors in a single viewing condition and
the variety of viewing conditions and observers is endless, then the only
truly correct answer is infinity. If we have 10-million colors, times 10-
million lighting types, times 10-million lighting levels, times 10-million
surrounding colors, times 6-billion people in the world, times 3 modes of
viewing we get a really huge number. The result of that multiplication is 18
followed by 33 zeros (18,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000), or 18
decillion. That might not quite be infinity, but is close enough since all
those estimated numbers are probably on the low side. And there is no way
to exactly measure each of them. To learn more about the names of really
big numbers, visit www.jimloy.com/math/billion.htm.

-VR

@very-rusty said
How many colours are there?

The best answer is infinity!
Careful measurements of our visual system’s best performance have been
made by psychophysicists (people who study human responses, like seeing
color, to things in the world, like light). They have shown that we can see
about 1000 levels of light-dark, 100 levels of red-green, and 100 levels of
yellow-bl ...[text shortened]... o learn more about the names of really
big numbers, visit www.jimloy.com/math/billion.htm.

-VR

@caesar-salad said
You already posted/pasted that. Did you mean to paste something else?

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Here you go:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120903221050.htm

'The way that the visual centers of men and women's brains works is different, finds new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Biology of Sex Differences. Men have greater sensitivity to fine detail and rapidly moving stimuli, but women are better at discriminating between colors.'

@caesar-salad said
Thank goodness for blanket generalizations.

@very-rusty said
I actually removed it and re-posted here when the page was flipped...not many go back to see what was on a previous page. 😉

-VR

@caesar-salad said
I skimmed right past it both times. 😉

No! How could they?! Please make it stop! 😭

"1990 - For the first time in Crayola history eight colors were retired and placed in the Crayola Hall of Fame: maize, lemon yellow, blue gray, raw umber, green blue, orange red, orange yellow, and violet blue."

https://www.crayola.com/faq/another-topic/what-are-the-names-of-the-retired-crayon-colors/

Does anyone else remember Spruce being a Crayola color? Because I'm not finding it in the lists of current or retired Crayola colors, although I have seen one or two sites that refer to just that color specifically.

Could this be a case of the Mandela Effect? Have I jumped tracks into a slightly different reality?

@caesar-salad said
Does anyone else remember Spruce being a Crayola color? Because I'm not finding it in the lists of current or retired Crayola colors, although I have seen one or two sites that refer to just that color specifically.

Could this be a case of the Mandela Effect? Have I jumped tracks into a slightly different reality?

@caesar-salad said
Does anyone else remember Spruce being a Crayola color? Because I'm not finding it in the lists of current or retired Crayola colors, although I have seen one or two sites that refer to just that color specifically.

Could this be a case of the Mandela Effect? Have I jumped tracks into a slightly different reality?

@suzianne said
https://encycolorpedia.com/69c17e

@very-rusty said
I believe there are different shades of colours that neither man or women can tell apart.

-VR