smaller float

Anders F Björklund afb at algonet.se
Mon Aug 21 04:16:22 PDT 2006


nobody_ wrote:

> Why are there no 16bit halfs (as opposed to doubles :)? 

There are, they're just not built-in to the D language...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_precision ("half", 16)

Wasn't any interest shown for adding 16 or 128 bit types.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quad_precision ("quad", 128)

--anders



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