Who needs 24 bit colors

[Peter S. Shenkin]

OK, here's a question.  How many bits of color resolution can the human
eye perceive?  I asked this question of a friend of mine who's a color
scientist, and (to my surprise) he didn't know.

I suppose I could make the question more operational by asking, "how many
segments would the color wheel need to have that even at high magnification
it would not be possible to see a boundary anywhere?"

	-P.
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