[Numpy-discussion] Does float16 exist?

[Matthieu Brucher]

float16 is not defined in my version of Numpy :(

Matthieu

2008/1/7, Darren Dale <darren.dale at cornell.edu>:
>
> One of my collaborators would like to use 16bit float arrays. According to
> http://www.scipy.org/Tentative_NumPy_Tutorial, and references to float16
> in
> numpy.core.numerictypes, it appears that this should be possible, but the
> following doesnt work:
>
> a=arange(10, dtype='float16')
> TypeError: data type not understood
>
> Can anyone offer some advice?
>
> Thanks,
> Darren
>
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