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A lot of software already use normalized RGB.

rgb(1.0, 1.0, 1.0) == white

And the idea is that you specify as many decimals as you need there?

Yes but that's an interface problem.

Ofcourse you can't provide more decimals than the number of bits used by the float.

EDIT:

  0.999 * 255 (8 bit) = 255
  0.9999 * 255 (8 bit) = 255
  0.999 * 4096 (12 bit) = 4092
  0.9999 * 4096 (12 bit) = 4096

So for lower color depths the number of decimals isn't that important.