Re: [math-fun] m & m's

Thane writes: << My son complained that his bag of m&m's contained "all browns, and no blues." I don't think blue used to be an M&M color when I was a kid. Brown, green, orange and red, yes. It's hard for me to remember yellows. Maybe just a few. Maybe the company tries to instill a sense of mystery about its identical-tasting candies by making one color "rarer" than another. Then again, maybe blue food coloring is more expensive than the others. --Dan