Comment by conradev
7 hours ago
I was curious about float16, and TIL that the 2008 revision of the standard includes it as an interchange format:
7 hours ago
I was curious about float16, and TIL that the 2008 revision of the standard includes it as an interchange format:
Note that this type (which Rust will/ does in nightly call "f16" and a C-like language would probably name "half") is not the only popular 16-bit floating point type, as some people want to have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bfloat16_floating-point_format