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Introducing the Half type!

August 31, 2020 Aug 31, 2020 08/31/20

Prashanth Govindarajan

The IEEE 754 specification defines many floating point types, including: binary16, binary32, binary64 and binary128. Most developers are familiar with binary32 (equivalent to float in C#) and binary64 (equivalent to double in C#). They provide a standard format to represent a wide range of values with a precision acceptable for many ...