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]

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet. I think.

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.

[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

I've always used

Roy G. Biv

so for discworld would be Roy G. Bivo

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

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.

Ah, the benefits of public education...

now now ba, love thy mole as thy love thyself. same goes for newbies.

what :?:

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...

[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.

[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.

That's the normal solution!

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.