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From: Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org>
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Subject: YASFID strange color
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2025 07:37:35 -0000 (UTC)
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This news item about a "color no one has seen before" 
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/18/scientists-claim-to-have-
found-colour-no-one-has-seen-before
(or https://tinyurl.com/3hmdzjmk )
brought to mind a short story from no later than 1956 about something
similar, except that, as I recall, it was an attribute of some
kind of object.