On 08/01/2008, Charles R Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, at a minimum people will want to read, write, print, and promote them. > That would at least let people work with the numbers, and since my > understanding is that the main virtue of the format is compactness for > storage and communication, a basic need will be filled right there. One > potential problem I see is handling +/-inf and nans, tests for these should > probably be built into the type.
The el-cheapo solution to this simply provides two functions: take an int16 array (which actually contains float16) and produce a float32 array, and vice versa. Then people do all their work in float32 (or float64 is float32 doesn't have inf/nan, I don't remember) but can read and write float16. Of course it would be nicer to use flaot16 natively, more or less, but without all the math that's going to be a frustrating experience. Anne _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
