Why is the color Prussian Blue unable to be accurately displayed on screens?

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On Prussian Blue’s Wikipedia page it says: “Like most high-chroma pigments, Prussian blue cannot be accurately displayed on a computer display.”

What exactly does this mean, and what is it specifically about the pigment that causes this

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A computer screen works by changing the brightness of lots of red, green and blue lights (subpixels). That means it’s limited to the colors of those lights. You can’t display anything more blue than the blue pixels, more red than the red pixels, or more black than turning the pixels off.

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