# Resistor Color Duo Welcome to Resistor Color Duo on Exercism's Zig Track. If you need help running the tests or submitting your code, check out `HELP.md`. ## Instructions If you want to build something using a Raspberry Pi, you'll probably use _resistors_. For this exercise, you need to know two things about them: - Each resistor has a resistance value. - Resistors are small - so small in fact that if you printed the resistance value on them, it would be hard to read. To get around this problem, manufacturers print color-coded bands onto the resistors to denote their resistance values. Each band has a position and a numeric value. The first 2 bands of a resistor have a simple encoding scheme: each color maps to a single number. For example, if they printed a brown band (value 1) followed by a green band (value 5), it would translate to the number 15. In this exercise you are going to create a helpful program so that you don't have to remember the values of the bands. The program will take color names as input and output a two digit number, even if the input is more than two colors! The band colors are encoded as follows: - black: 0 - brown: 1 - red: 2 - orange: 3 - yellow: 4 - green: 5 - blue: 6 - violet: 7 - grey: 8 - white: 9 From the example above: brown-green should return 15, and brown-green-violet should return 15 too, ignoring the third color. ## Source ### Created by - @massivelivefun ### Based on Maud de Vries, Erik Schierboom - https://github.com/exercism/problem-specifications/issues/1464