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    From Stephen Pelc@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 28 11:36:53 2023
    16 bit floats are increasingly available on modern desktop CPUs.

    Does anyone use these or want to use these in Forth?

    Stephen
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  • From Clive Arthur@21:1/5 to Stephen Pelc on Thu Dec 28 12:42:05 2023
    On 28/12/2023 11:36, Stephen Pelc wrote:
    16 bit floats are increasingly available on modern desktop CPUs.

    Does anyone use these or want to use these in Forth?

    Stephen

    Byte, Shirley?

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  • From minforth@21:1/5 to Stephen Pelc on Thu Dec 28 14:34:46 2023
    Stephen Pelc wrote:
    16 bit floats are increasingly available on modern desktop CPUs.
    Does anyone use these or want to use these in Forth?

    I am guessing that compact AI matrices are the main driver today
    behind flaot16 formats. What else can you do with a 10 bit mantissa?
    Or even only 7 mantissa bits for bfloat16.

    FWIW I am using 24 bit floats because they are well suited for
    AD/DA conversion with de/normalisation of signal vectors.

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  • From Clive Arthur@21:1/5 to Clive Arthur on Thu Dec 28 16:13:44 2023
    On 28/12/2023 12:42, Clive Arthur wrote:
    On 28/12/2023 11:36, Stephen Pelc wrote:
    16 bit floats are increasingly available on modern desktop CPUs.

    Does anyone use these or want to use these in Forth?

    Stephen

    Byte, Shirley?

    I stand corrected! 16 bit floats, whodathunkit?

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    Clive

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