Date   : Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:58:52 +0000
From   : jgh@... (J.G.Harston)
Subject: Programming: Colour names in Sigsumeidsi

J.G.Harston wrote:
> Jules Richardson wrote:
>> Storage is cheap - with a constraint placed on simplicity of the algorithm
>> rather than performance, how about a monster[1] lookup table? :-)
>> [1] anyone care to work out how monster?
>
> 20 characters per name, 256*256*256 names, &14000000 bytes of storage.
> Only 5120M ;)

D'oh! 320M ! (20*16 not 20*256 - miscounted the zeros)

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