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Re: Whats your favorite color?
When I worked at Sayette, making LCD based video projectors, we had a system that could get 24 bit color from a 12 bit LCD panel.
We advertised it as 16.8 million colors. Some of our competitors also had 24 bit color, but they called it 16.7 million colors.
Every once in a while a customer would ask us why we have 16.8 million instead of 16.7 million. We told them our projectors can display 100,000 more colors than the competition
and we started of list of names for those 100,000 extra colors that only we could do: Morning summer mist, Rainforest twilight, cyrstal lavender, Sierra Sienna....
we had our list up to around 40 names, when someone asked us about the extra colors we'd start rattling off the names, and then say "we can send you the whole list if you want it". A lot of people thought we were serious!
In reality, we simply rounded 2^24 up to 16.8 M, instead of rounding it down to 16.7M :^)
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