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Re: What are units-of-measure? e.g., what's a "kilometer"?

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• Subject: Re: What are units-of-measure? e.g., what's a "kilometer"?
• From: "Emmanuil Batsis (Manos)" <mbatsis@n...>
• Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:41:43 +0300
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roger.day@g... wrote:

> isn't kilometer a bit, well, easy? Upping the stakes a bit, you could ask
> the question:
> 
> "What is blue?"

One can say colors are non-atomic numerical ranges (HEX, RGB, CMYK). A 
little more copmplicated than atomic measument units but that's just it.

BTW, anyone knows where I can find documentation that would help me 
identify (name) a color by such a range?

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