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Comment by krick | Hacker News Reader

I mean, it really just tests arbitrary word usage. I have no fucking clue if turquoise is supposed to be "green" or "blue", it's turquoise!

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A bit like "is this hotdog overpriced" amd trying to binary search the exact cent where it became overpriced.

That’s easy, any hot dog that is more than $1.50 USD is overpriced.

But you get the price in another currency, and don’t know the exact exchange rate (in place of monitor calibration).

Parent was a joke about the Costco fixed price hotdog.

UK Costco hotdogs are £1.50, which is not equal to $1.50, reflecting both its arbitrary nature and that UK purchasing power is weaker than the exchange rate would appear. (Computer books are a frequent offender here of having the same $ and £ prices)

That might be a language issue. In Danish it's common to use "turkis blå", i.e. turquoise blue. Then again, you can also use "turkis grøn", turquoise green.

But with green/blue there is certain opinion that I have at least.

Nah turquoise is green.

Apparently I thought so as well. Then again, my display is in night mode...

Oh shit. Turned off night mode and switched sides!

No turquoise is blue.

Within the ISCC–NBS System of Color Designation Turqoise (#40E0D0) is classified as a brilliant bluish green. Turquoise blue (#00FFEF) is close to turquoise on the color wheel, but slightly more blue.

More metrics, including sRGB, can be found on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turquoise_(color)

Turquoise is dark cyan, no? So equal parts green and blue.

the real question is whether orange is red or yellow

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