Re: [Python-ideas] Adding a half-float (16-bit) type to PEP 3118 (and possibly the struct module?)

On 3/31/2011 1:58 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Robert Kern<robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote: ..

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The proposed letter code is 'e', as used in numpy. I'm not sure of the logic that went behind the choice, except perhaps that 'e' is near 'd' and 'f'.

So it is 'e' for half,

No, 'e' for 'elfin' ;-). 'f' for single and 'd' for double. -- Terry Jan Reedy