My question about images in Matlab: Why is the color value of pixels sometimes represented by integer numbers such as:

Pixel information(X,Y) [R G B]= (10,20) [139, 104, 172]

and other times by fractional values such as:

Pixel information(X,Y) [R G B]= (10,20) [0.5373, 0.529, 0.5059] , ??

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