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		gampleman on March 1, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: One Way to Represent Things I am not, both are floats. They are represented only in that range, because that's customary in web dev circles.

Quekid5 on March 3, 2021 [–]

Floats? What does R=255.0, etc. mean when the other example has R=1.0?

Precision has nothing to do with it, the scale isn't even defined... which was my point.

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