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Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?

https://30fps.net/pages/255-vs-256-division/
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Case against 255: it looks wrong in the graph :(

Case against 256: no 0 or 1 values :(

Considering how important having a 0 and 1 value is for arithmetic in general, I think 255 is better.

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