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  • (Score: 1) by codemachine on Friday February 28 2014, @05:08PM

    by codemachine (1333) on Friday February 28 2014, @05:08PM (#8775)

    Except that in Canada, Liberals are Red, Conservatives are Blue.

    Perhaps at the end of this poll, we will mix the colours by the appropriate ratios. That way, every vote counts!

    So as of now, our site will be:

    27% Red
    26% Blue
    14% Green
    14% Grey
    7% Linus
    3% Skittles
    3% Other
    1% Yellow

    I suspect that mixed together, we'd end up with a rather bad shade of purple or brown. But hey, the people voted, and SN is going to listen!

  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday March 02 2014, @07:19AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday March 02 2014, @07:19AM (#9516)

    Let's see ... a mixture of all colours is, of course, white, and Linus' colour is yellow [linuxjournal.com] (well, it was in 1999, but it's the only one I've found, although that might just be my lacking search-fu). For "Other" I choose "black" (not that it matters too much, at 3%). Therefore we get:

    0.27*(255,0,0) + 0.26*(0,255,0) + 0.14*(0,0,255) + 0.14*(128,128,128) + 0.07*(255,255,0) + 0.03*(255,255,255) + 0.03*(0,0,0) + 0.01*(255,255,0) = (114.82,112,27,61.27) ≈ (115,112,61).

    Therefore the chosen colour is #73703d. Which happens to be an olive green (at least on my screen/to my eyes).

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    • (Score: 1) by similar_name on Tuesday March 04 2014, @10:55AM

      by similar_name (71) on Tuesday March 04 2014, @10:55AM (#10660)
      >Therefore the chosen colour is #73703d. Which happens to be an olive green (at least on my screen/to my eyes).

      I call it olive green too but it may be red to you as far as I'm concerned. You just call it green too.
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