[julia-users] Quirks with float16 promotion

2015-01-05 Thread Mark B
I'm trying to figure out promotions and noticed a few possible quirks - perhaps these are bugs, as I can't figure out the logic. I realize float16 is a work in progress but I really like the data type as my datasets are large. julia a=rand(Float16,1) # define a float16 variable

Re: [julia-users] Quirks with float16 promotion

2015-01-05 Thread Jiahao Chen
Related issue: #5942 https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5942 On Mon Jan 05 2015 at 10:06:54 AM Mark B 2460...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to figure out promotions and noticed a few possible quirks - perhaps these are bugs, as I can't figure out the logic. I realize float16 is a work