Hey Zubair,

If you think this is a really worthwhile feature, it probably makes more
sense to suggest it be added to Erlang.

At least from the use cases you've described though, it's probably not
necessary. When the value gets deserialized from whatever protocol to an
elixir value, that should fit fine in a normal float. When it get's
serialized, there may be some data loss as it get's converted to a lower
precision value, but that's likely to be ok in this case.

Allen Madsen
http://www.allenmadsen.com


On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 1:41 AM Zubair <[email protected]> wrote:

> Half float representation is used in many new platforms, e.g. Elastic
> search uses half float datatype. I am not aware if it can be used as of now
> in Elixir, however if it is not need to support it.
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