then white is not a colour.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

white isn't a color, its a shade, right?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

no, it's a colour. a shade is the combination of a hue with black

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It is not a color. It is the absence of all color.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

if you wanna get all scientific about it, BLACK is the absence of colour, and white is the combination of colours. if you're talking about art, then white is the absence of colour and black the combination. But if you're not talking about a general topic, white is a colour.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

no buddy, WHITE is the absence of color. True BLACK is the absence of light, but we can't achieve that on paper so often times the black you see is a darkened brown. Brown is a mixture of a triad on the color wheel. Ex. Red+Yellow+Blue= brown. give it a try, i promise it's true. That being said, any triad works, like Orange+Purple+Green. Therefore, if you mix every color together, you're essentially just taking every triad and mixing it, (getting brown) and mixing it with each other (getting more brown). It is most definitely not white. Test it out your self, if you combine every single color you get brown. Go on, give it a shot. You get a nasty, murky brown. Not white.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

dude that's just pigments. you know, paints and stuff. paints =/= colours. suppose i did mix red and yellow and blue together, but then i'd get some colour like orange, or even pink. that's because i was using LIGHT not pigments. the definition of white depends on who you ask.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

again, how does one perceive color? Light. Light reflects off of it. Not who you ask, but in what context. If the white you're talking about is the light that comes from say...a flash light, or fission, that white hot light isn't a color at all. It's pure raw energy. it's not "white", it's "light" I feel like your thinking of light and dark as opposed to white and black. They're different. White and black are, as you say, pigments generated by us humans, but light and dark has nothing to do with color. (I'm talking about the black of space, and the white of the light of a star that just died.)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

and buddy, you would get something like orange from mixing red yellow and blue because if you put the same amount of each color, we're talking regardless of medium, using light or paint or ink, the colors don't have the same balance. For example, if you use drops of ink, one drop of yellow and one drop of blue don't make green, it'll be more of a blue. it'll take maybe 6 to 7 drops of yellow ink to 1 drop of blue to get a decent green. similarly if you shine three lights on each other, red, yellow, and blue, you won't get orange, you'll get a weird bluish hue. the darker the color, the more weight it has when you combine it with others. Also, that rule doesn't apply to just paint. You incorrectly used the word pigment. A pigment is any material that affects the color of reflected or transmitted LIGHT. Paint is a pigment. Grass and plants have green pigments. Color Theory applies to anything involving color and light.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

white's a colour, end of story.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

White's a tint.....

by Anonymous 13 years ago

"Zero, written 0, is both a number and the numerical digit used to represent that number in numerals. "

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah hate to break it to you but zero is a number. It's an even number too, which I find kind of interesting.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

@355401 (Anonymous): @355409 (LewisL): I'm pretty sure this person meant the letter, like how people say "O" instead of zero...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

well then it's neither a number nor zero, it's O

by Anonymous 13 years ago

But when they mean the number zero..

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oh my bad I misread it. I still disagree though.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think they mean when people say "o" instead of "zero." Like when reciting a phone number or something of the sort. That's how I read it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

People are misreading it. o is not a number, like when people recite it in a phone number or something. 2 oh 3 - 8 oh 4 - 2 oh 13 or something like that

by Anonymous 13 years ago

lol, no. the OP wrote it wrong, that's all. they meant "it's 'zero'", as in the pronunciation. people think they meant it IS zero. :P bad grammar is the cause of this whole problem

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Zero is a number. It is an integer just like -3, -2, -1, and +1, +2, +3...

by Anonymous 13 years ago