eli5 What makes the color green, green?

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Hello all,
I am working on a project that requires me to identify what colors are green. This seems easy enough but I am working with color codes and don’t know where certain colors start and/or cut off.
I am working with RGB and a color can appear completely red with a value of 1 for Green but not appear green at all. Would this still be called green?

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Colors are subjective. There are lots of edge cases where different people will categorize the same color code as belonging to one of several color groups. The same color might be considered yellow or green depending on who you ask, for example. What I would do is to transform the RGB color codes into HSL or HSV codes. It is then easier to compare the hue from this as this tends to give a more consistent result. You should also check the saturation and luminocity to check for gray, white or black which do not have a specific hue.

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