March 31, 2011
5:39 a.m.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
Just out of curiosity, is the layout of numpy's float16 based on any existing standard, or is it something purely invented by numpy?
If it's a standard format, that would lend more weight to the idea of supporting it in the buffer interface.
Per my understanding (I haven't gone and cross-checked the code with the spec, however), it's based on IEEE 754-2008: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_precision_floating-point_format Eli