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Calculate how many different pixel colours could be formed if one of the bytes gives the intensity of the red colour, one of the bytes gives the intensity of the green colour and one of the bytes gives the intensity of the blue colour.

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Answer: The three RGB colors are each 8-bits (possible values [0.. 255], 2 to the power of 8 = 256) of each of Red, Green, and Blue. The three 8-bit RGB components can create up to 256×256×256 = 16.7 million possible RGB color combinations, called 24-bit "color".

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