why purple is on the end of the rainbow/color spectrum

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First of all, I don’t understand why indigo and violet are split… why not just call it purple? Ok, not my question.

Colors of the rainbow all make sense to me except purple.

Red – orange – yellow…makes sense that orange is between red and yellow, and it’s the combination of those two primary colors, nice transition

This follows with green, blue. Green is between yellow and blue.

Now… if purple aka indigo and violet are a combination of blue and red, how can it be on the opposite end of red (very different frequency) and outside the frequency range of blue? I would expect a secondary color’s frequency to be between the two primary colors that create it

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Because light and colour are not the same thing.

Light is a form of electromagnetic energy with a wavelength between 400 and 700 nanometres

Colour is what our primitive monkey brains try and interpret as a ratio of red, green and blue.

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