I'd missed that this was the continuation of a thread. Florian Bösch [started it](https://esdiscuss.org/topic/float16array#content-0) with interop in mind, in fact. So that makes sense.
-- T.J. Crowder On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 1:12 PM, T.J. Crowder < [email protected]> wrote: > 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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