Re: min-colors 88

[Emanuel Berg]

fatiparty--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:

> So one uses whatever bit format (e.g. 24-Bit Format for
> #RRGGBB) needed to store the maximum colours supported?

Total number of colors expressible by the hexadecimal #RRGGBB
notation:

  $ echo $(( ((16 - 1)*16**1 + (16 - 1)*16**0 + 1)**3 ))
  16 777 216

So the max value is:

  $ dec2bin $(( 16 777 216 - 1 )) # [1]
  11111111 11111111 11111111

which is 3*8 = 24 bits.

(Spaces added for clarity.)

[1] https://dataswamp.org/~incal/conf/.zsh/math

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