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From: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
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Subject: Re: RYB
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 09:14:11 -0700
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bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> writes:

> Does anyone really know why everything is RGB instead of RYB?
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> Like most people, I was brought up being told the primary colors were red, yellow, blue.
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> Was that simply wrong?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_color has an explanation.