Gold
Gold may refer to any of the following:
1. Gold is a precious metal used in computing because it is a good electrical and thermal conductor.
2. A color commonly yellow that represents the color of the precious metal gold. With HTML (hypertext markup language) and HTML color codes, the gold color is #FFD700. For example, this text is a gold color. The image shows an example of the gold color code with the RGB (red, green, and blue), HSL (hue, saturation, and lightness), that it's not a web safe color, and its complementary color.
If you're looking for other metal colors like gold, see our metal page.
3. Gold is an adjective describing software that finished development and is ready to be released to the public. For instance, a software development team may use the phrase going gold to describe a project's completion or public release in a software release life cycle.
4. Gold is a form of game currency used in computer games to purchase virtual goods and items. Often games with gold also have copper, silver, or other precious metals for different denominations of money. Copper is a smaller value (e.g., 10 copper = 1 silver or 100 copper = 1 gold) and silver is more than copper but still smaller than gold (e.g., every 10 silver = 1 gold).
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