CSC111 Why 255?

--D. Thiebaut (talk) 16:14, 13 March 2014 (EDT)

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Sample Image

square.bmp

identify square.bmp
square.bmp BMP 20x20 20x20+0+0 8-bit sRGB 1.25KB 0.000u 0:00.000

ls -l square.bmp 
-rw-r--r--  1 thiebaut  wheel  1254 Mar 13 20:48 square.bmp

Octal Dump

od -t u1 square.bmp

 0000000    66  77 230   4   0   0   0   0   0   0  54   0   0   0  40   0
 0000020     0   0  20   0   0   0  20   0   0   0   1   0  24   0   0   0
 0000040     0   0 176   4   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
 0000060     0   0   0   0   0   0 240   0   0 240   0   0 240   0   0 240
 0000100     0   0 240   0   0 240   0   0 240   0   0 240   0   0 240   0
 0000120     0 240   0   0 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
 0000140   100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
 0000160   100 100 240   0   0 240   0   0 240   0   0 240   0   0 240   0
 ...
 0002200     0   0 255   0   0 255   0   0 255   0   0 255 100 100 100   0
 0002220   250   0   0 250   0   0 250   0   0 250   0   0 250   0   0 250
 0002240     0   0 250   0   0 250   0   0 250   0   0   0 255   0   0 255
 0002260     0   0 255   0   0 255   0   0 255   0   0 255   0   0 255   0
 0002300     0 255   0   0 255   0   0 255 100 100 100   0 250   0   0 250
 0002320     0   0 250   0   0 250   0   0 250   0   0 250   0   0 250   0
 0002340     0 250   0   0 250   0