Currently, SRFI 231 requires an 8-bit floating point storage class.
However:

1) There is no hardware support anywhere for such a thing.

2) There is no standard of any kind, either IEEE or otherwise, for such a
thing either.

3) The sample implementation doesn't provide them.

4) I researched various articles that discuss them, and basically some are
in favor of 4-bit exponent and 3-bit mantissa, and others the opposite
way.  Furthermore, there are different plausible values for the exponent
bias: 1 is a common value, making 1/8 the minimum positive float and 15360
the maximum, but -2 is also a possibility, in which case all representable
values are integral and the maximum positive float is 122880.

It would be trivial to remove the reference from the SRFI and from the
comments in the implementation file.

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