Given that each cone in the human eye can detect about 100 different shades of color, about how many different colors can a human see altogether?

Answer 1

Each human eye has three types of cones: red cones, green cones, and blue cones. Each cone can detect about 100 different shades of color.

To find the total number of different colors a human can see, we need to multiply the number of shades of color that each cone can detect.

100 (shades of color for red cones) * 100 (shades of color for green cones) * 100 (shades of color for blue cones) = 1,000,000 different colors.

Therefore, a human can see approximately 1,000,000 different colors in total.