Why do we always divide RGB values by 255? [closed]

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RGB (Red, Green, Blue) are 8 bit each.
The range for each individual colour is 0-255 (as 2^8 = 256 possibilities).
The combination range is 256*256*256.

By dividing by 255, the 0-255 range can be described with a 0.0-1.0 range where 0.0 means 0 (0x00) and 1.0 means 255 (0xFF).

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