[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] Numeric typecodes

[Dale Bertrand]

>> I'm using a pre 1.0 version of Numeric which does seem to support all the
>> typecodes in v1.0.  For the available types for Floats are 'd' and 'f'.
>> Would someone please tell me how many bytes these use to represent floating
>> point data?
>
>Same as the underlying data they represent, i.e. for a float, 'f', on a
>sparc (which you're on ;) i believe it's 4 bytes. A double, 'd',  is 8
>bytes. 

Since I can't throw 2 byte Float into an array, thinking about manipulating
the two bytes into a 4 byte float by adding two bytes in the right places
for each value.  Will this work?  I've made a diagram below.

** **
** ** 2 byte float
** **
|   |
|   ---
|      |

** ** ** **
** ** ** **  4 byte float
** ** ** **
    ^     ^
    |     |
   (added zero bytes)


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Dale Bertrand
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