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Infinite amount of both. But there is also issue of remembering which is not as easy as people assume and of comparing.

And of light conditions and context affecting your perception. And so on.



Infinite? Not at all, we’re talking about identifying absolute frequencies here, not just telling them apart. For sound I’d say it’s less than five, for colour perhaps a dozen.




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