Google's drive of Perfection 'Which blue is better?'

Apparently, the Google company was built on perfection.

Yes, it's true that a team at Google couldn't decide between two blues, so they're testing 41 shades between each blue to see which one performs better. I had a recent debate over whether a border should be 3, 4, or 5 pixels wide, and was asked to prove my case. I can't operate in an environment like that. I've grown tired of debating such minuscule design decisions...

~ quoted from Google's ex-visual designer lead Douglas Bowman's Blog entry 20th Mar 09.

I'm wondering, how many colors are there in CMYK or RGB for Blue..

He officially announces his leave from Google team on his blog. "Goodbye Google"
CNET article " Google designer leaves, blaming data-centrism", 20 March 09