Today’s a double header!
Not only did I just wrap up another post (which you can read over here), but I also finally got another submission from the AMA (Ask Me Anything) feature that I added to Jiggy’s Journal back in June! If you’re interested, check out the first submissions that I answered over here!
Disinterestingly enough, this submission actually landed in the form’s “spam” filter, so I almost missed it. They used an email address that was obviously fake, so I’m guessing that’s how it wound up there, but I’ve got a sneaking suspicion once again that I know who submitted this one, so I figured I’d go ahead and publish my response.
☝️ Reminder: The AMA (Ask Me Anything) page remains open!
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Here we go!
Whatismath asks:
What is the square root of purple?
Okay, so the question is a bit nonsensical, so that may also be part of the reason why it ended up in the spam filter. However, I like making attempts to answer these submissions, no matter how silly they may be.
That being said, I thought about perhaps trying to find the square root of the hex code for purple, which, according to Canva, is #CC8899 (as pictured above) or #A020F0 (via the link). I am no mathematician — in fact, I hate math with a fiery passion — but I know that letters aren’t numbers. And when they are, it’s algebra, and that’s about the time I dropped out of college. So I made the executive decision to use the RGB decimal for purple instead, which Canva says is 160, 32, 240.
Adding the RGB decimal numbers totals 432. I did a quick search on Google of what the square root of 432 is (because you didn’t think that I was actually going to do that shit, did you??), and it says the solution is 20.7846096908.
And there you have it! The square root of the color purple. ✨
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