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@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ These colors are encoded as follows:
 - Grey: 8
 - White: 9
 
+The goal of this exercise is to create a way:
+- to look up the numerical value associated with a particular color band
+- to list the different band colors
+
 Mnemonics map the colors to the numbers, that, when stored as an array, happen to map to their index in the array: Better Be Right Or Your Great Big Values Go Wrong.
 
 More information on the color encoding of resistors can be found in the [Electronic color code Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_color_code)