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From: PFREY%drew.bitnet@pucc.princeton.edu (PETER C. FREY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Mac can emulate Amiga and has over 1,000,000 colors
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Date: 5 Apr 91 10:11:23 GMT
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IN%"erk@americ.uucp"  "Erick Parsons"  write:

>That's 4.3 Billion colors. If you ask me it's a waste of money. Consider that
>the Human eye can only percieve ~7 Million colors at the peak of health. That's
>a 613 X overkill. All hype. ;)

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You might want to add that out of the 7 million colors, the person can only
discriminate 7,500 colors names.  So the overkill is 6130 X.

                                                PFREY@DREW.BITNET