Re: [CF-metadata] [cf-convention/cf-conventions] Lossy Compression by Coordinate Sampling (#327)

2021-05-16 Thread taylor13
looks good to me. Can we omit "base-2" from the descriptions, or is that essential? Might even reduce description to, for example: ``` "32": 32-bit floating-point arithmetic ``` -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on

Re: [CF-metadata] [cf-convention/cf-conventions] Lossy Compression by Coordinate Sampling (#327)

2021-05-16 Thread AndersMS
Hi @taylor13 and @davidhassell, I am not fully up to date on the data types, but following the links that David sent, it appears that decimal64 is a base-10 floating-point number representation that _is intended for applications where it is necessary to emulate decimal rounding exactly, such