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Functional Rainbow

elbeno, 29 December, 200829 December, 2008

Functional Rainbow

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Comments (3)

  1. Sylvene says:
    30 December, 2008 at 10:49 am

    Umm… that’s 8 books.

    *mental recitation of Richard of York Gaining Britain in Vain…*

    Okay… Orange needs to blend. 🙂

  2. elbeno says:
    30 December, 2008 at 2:39 pm

    It’s 8 books. That’s what I have. You think your 7 rainbow colours are anything more than arbitrary human-visual-system-centric distinctions between a continuum of wavelengths? 🙂

  3. Sylvene says:
    30 December, 2008 at 4:33 pm

    It’s as real as the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow!

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