Changing a channel of a color has a bottom limit and I don't know why

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I am scratching my head over a very weird problem. It’s very straighforward. All I am doing is changing the red channel of the color of a pixel of a Texture2d a set amount x * Time.deltaTime in the Update function. If x is 0.1 or bigger it works perfectly fine but if it is smaller it doesn’t update the color channel at all. Is there a bottom limit for how small the increments can be or maybe something else? Anybody have an idea?

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Let me give some more context because it might possibly be a bit more complex.

public class PlayerTracker : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject player;
    public Texture2D playerMap;
    public RawImage mapImage;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        playerMap = new Texture2D(20, 20);
        for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++)
            for (int j = 0; j < 20; j++)
                playerMap.SetPixel(i, j, Color.black);
        playerMap.Apply();
        mapImage.texture = playerMap;
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        PositionTracker();
    }

    public void PositionTracker()
    {
        int xToTexCor = Mathf.FloorToInt(player.transform.position.x / 4.5f);
        int zToTexCor = Mathf.FloorToInt(player.transform.position.z / 4.5f);
        Color currentColor = playerMap.GetPixel(xToTexCor, zToTexCor);
        currentColor.r += 0.2f * Time.deltaTime;
        playerMap.SetPixel(xToTexCor, zToTexCor, currentColor);
        playerMap.Apply();
    }
}

I am taking the players position and translating it into a texture. The longer they stay in a position the redder the corresponding pixel gets. Logging the the red channel shows that it only updates every few seconds if the rate of change is smaller than 0.2f * Time.deltaTime and the change is not as big as it should be.

3

So weirdly enough when taking an intermediary variable to hold the change in color I could see that the red channel was updating at the correct rate but not every frame.

(For some reason it didn’t let me upload an image so here is a link for a consol log showing the discrepancy)
imgur image