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16 bit floats

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From: stephen@vfxforth.com (Stephen Pelc)
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Subject: 16 bit floats
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by: Stephen Pelc - Thu, 28 Dec 2023 11:36 UTC

16 bit floats are increasingly available on modern desktop CPUs.

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

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by: Clive Arthur - Thu, 28 Dec 2023 12:42 UTC

On 28/12/2023 11:36, Stephen Pelc wrote:
> 16 bit floats are increasingly available on modern desktop CPUs.
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> Does anyone use these or want to use these in Forth?
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> Stephen

Byte, Shirley?

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by: minforth - Thu, 28 Dec 2023 14:34 UTC

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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by: Clive Arthur - Thu, 28 Dec 2023 16:13 UTC

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
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> Byte, Shirley?
>
I stand corrected! 16 bit floats, whodathunkit?

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Subject	Author
16 bit floats	Stephen Pelc
Re: 16 bit floats	Clive Arthur
Re: 16 bit floats	Clive Arthur
Re: 16 bit floats	minforth

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