It would. It would also not accumulate quantization errors from an intermediate result. Having said that there are precedents for having the intermediate image

It would. It would also not accumulate quantization errors from an intermediate result. Having said that there are precedents for having the intermediate image pixels in integral values. Here is imageworsener's article about this[1] [1] https://entropymine.com/imageworsener/clamp-int/ https://entropymine.com/imageworsener/clamp-int/