Re:Wikipedia Is Trying to Transcend the Limits of Human Lang...
by ginko on Friday September 03, 2021 @07:46AM
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I've never heard that rainbows are supposed to have a discrete number of colors.
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Re:Wikipedia Is Trying to Transcend the Limits of Human Lang...
by another-dave on Friday September 03, 2021 @09:07AM
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It's always been the standard abstract that I've heard to teach around it.
In Ireland/UK it's something that gets brought up in primary and secondary schools, first when talking about rainbows and then later in discussions on optics/refraction — e.g. you'd get kids to make their own Newton's disc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_disc) and see colours blending together to white.