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It's more a mix of biology and subjectively than physics. We have photoreceptors for red, green, and blue. Everything else is shades we arbitrarily name. For example the English language had no name for orange until fairly recently when the eponymous fruit was brought to Europe. It's why we still say red-heads when today we would describe their hair as actually being orange.

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