On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Leo Balter <[email protected]> wrote:
> The current spec is based on IEEE 754 and matches the floating point > specs. What would Float16 be based on? > There's a binary16 format specified by IEEE-754 2008. But I agree with the "why" comment. 16-bit (aka "half precision") binary floating point is not very useful here in 2017 except for interop (森建 - is interop your motivation?)... I'd be much more interested to see support for the "new" (nine years ago) decimal formats. -- T.J. Crowder
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