"float" on 3 bytes

[tsalm]

>> Hi,
>>
>> I need to minimize the size of my memory use...
>> My program uses a big array of float.
>> My float have a gap of 0.0000001 and 65536.
>>
>> So i think to store one sort of "float" with :
>> - an "ushort" to have numbers
>> - and a "ubyte" to have the number of digit in the decimal portion (or  
>> something like this...).
>>
>> What could be the better way for you ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help,
>> TSalm
>
>
> There are 24- and 16-bit floating point type libraries available in C  
> (google for half-float), these could be easily ported to D.

Interesting. Thanks