I don't know where else to post this. BUT please answer.

Discussion in 'THE WIZARD BOOKS' started by boggon, Sep 2, 2006.

  1. boggon New Member

    okay so I'm only onto [b:7b3bc69469]The Light Fantastic[/b:7b3bc69469] but I've been wondering...
    If Octarine is the eighth and last colour on the light spectrum, what are the other seven colours???

    [i:7b3bc69469]Please answer[/i:7b3bc69469]
  2. chrisjordan New Member

    Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet. I think.
  3. Marcia Executive Onion

    Indigo is really a shade of blue. It was treated as a separate colour in the spectrum so that there would be 7 colours for religous/philosophical reasons.

    Really, you can divide them up any way you like with as many colour divisions as you like. That's what a spectrum is.
  4. boggon New Member

    [quote:0c8019fbe9="chrisjordan"]Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet. I think.[/quote:0c8019fbe9]

    So it's just the rainbow but with octarine.

    You know the saying to remember the rainbow:
    [b:0c8019fbe9]R[/b:0c8019fbe9]ichard [b:0c8019fbe9]R[/b:0c8019fbe9]ed
    [b:0c8019fbe9]O[/b:0c8019fbe9]f [b:0c8019fbe9]O[/b:0c8019fbe9]range
    [b:0c8019fbe9]Y[/b:0c8019fbe9]ork [b:0c8019fbe9]Y[/b:0c8019fbe9]ellow
    [b:0c8019fbe9]G[/b:0c8019fbe9]ave [b:0c8019fbe9]G[/b:0c8019fbe9]reen
    [b:0c8019fbe9]B[/b:0c8019fbe9]attle [b:0c8019fbe9]B[/b:0c8019fbe9]lue
    [b:0c8019fbe9]I[/b:0c8019fbe9]n [b:0c8019fbe9]I[/b:0c8019fbe9]ndigo
    [b:0c8019fbe9]V[/b:0c8019fbe9]ain [b:0c8019fbe9]V[/b:0c8019fbe9]iolet

    To Remember the Discworld spectrum it should be:

    [b:0c8019fbe9]R[/b:0c8019fbe9]ichard [b:0c8019fbe9]R[/b:0c8019fbe9]ed
    [b:0c8019fbe9]O[/b:0c8019fbe9]f [b:0c8019fbe9]O[/b:0c8019fbe9]range
    [b:0c8019fbe9]Y[/b:0c8019fbe9]ork [b:0c8019fbe9]Y[/b:0c8019fbe9]ellow
    [b:0c8019fbe9]G[/b:0c8019fbe9]ave [b:0c8019fbe9]G[/b:0c8019fbe9]reen
    [b:0c8019fbe9]B[/b:0c8019fbe9]attle [b:0c8019fbe9]B[/b:0c8019fbe9]lue
    [b:0c8019fbe9]I[/b:0c8019fbe9]n [b:0c8019fbe9]I[/b:0c8019fbe9]ndigo
    [b:0c8019fbe9]V[/b:0c8019fbe9]ain [b:0c8019fbe9]V[/b:0c8019fbe9]iolet
    [b:0c8019fbe9]O[/b:0c8019fbe9]ubviously [b:0c8019fbe9]O[/b:0c8019fbe9]ctarine
  5. Marcia Executive Onion

    I've always used

    Roy G. Biv

    so for discworld would be Roy G. Bivo
  6. chrisjordan New Member

    I just remember....ROYGBIV. In my head: Roy Guh-biv. I am the bane of promoters of creative learning everywhere.
  7. boggon New Member

    I like it how TP has invented a spectrum and stuff. It must have been very well planned before he wrote it. And the way involves 8 so much.
  8. Ba Lord of the Pies

    Ah, the benefits of public education...
  9. Garner Great God and Founding Father

    now now ba, love thy mole as thy love thyself. same goes for newbies.
  10. boggon New Member

    what :?:
  11. Katcal I Aten't French !

    Oh dear, Garner's having a wisdom attack again, someone slap him, I'm running out of bits to smite...

    boggon, I think Ba was implying that the spectrum wasn't exactly invented by Terry, he merely added an 8th colour... Which of course remains a work of genius, and all that but still...
  12. Marcia Executive Onion

    [quote:a052a21bb8="Katcal"] boggon, I think Ba was implying that the spectrum wasn't exactly invented by Terry, he merely added an 8th colour. Which of course remains a work of genius, and all that but still...[/quote:a052a21bb8]

    Kat, I think Ba was commenting on the fact that Boggon had to state that Terry planned the number 8 thing before he wrote the books.
  13. Katcal I Aten't French !

    [quote:ee19f24a0c="Marcia"][quote:ee19f24a0c="Katcal"] boggon, I think Ba was implying that the spectrum wasn't exactly invented by Terry, he merely added an 8th colour. Which of course remains a work of genius, and all that but still...[/quote:ee19f24a0c]

    Kat, I think Ba was commenting on the fact that Boggon had to state that Terry planned the number 8 thing before he wrote the books.[/quote:ee19f24a0c]
    Truly, the ways of Ba are mysterious... He was probably talking about pie.
  14. Angua_rox New Member

    That's the normal solution!
  15. KaptenKaries New Member

    I'm amazed by the fact that you've all bothered to learn the colours of the rainbow. Must be some angloamerican kindergarden tradition.

    I once knew the periodic table by heart. I still remember the first eighteen elements. I learned the nonsense words that were created by stringing the symbols together:

    H helibeb cnofne namgal sipsclar

    You had to remember how to split it up again, all elements do not have the same number of letters as their symbols.
  16. TamyraMcG Active Member

    My little nephew already knows his colors and that two and two are four. He's not too sure that being two is a good thing. He seems to know that he's been able to get away with a lot because he was a baby and now he's leaving babyhood behind.
  17. Angua_rox New Member

  18. Buzzfloyd Spelling Bee

    KK, it's very common for people to use mnemonics for the colours of the rainbow over here. I personally didn't learn any of them until years after I knew the colours - which always seemed to me to follow such a blindingly logical order that a mnemonic was unnecessary - but I did invent a song to help my little sisters learn them. They still sing it now they're in their twenties.

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