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That's very informative summary. From: "Bradd W. Szonye" <bradd+srfi@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Floating-point formats and standards Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 04:22:27 -0800 > Bradd W. Szonye wrote: > > New name Sig Exp Old name Currently implemented by > > > > binary16 11 5 Just a note. Currently, 16-bit binary floating-point numbers (called half floats) getting wider use in images; graphics processors directly deals with them, and ILM's OpenEXR image format stores values in them. It may be too early to consider them in this srfi, but I can imagine I'd like to have uniform arrays of binary16 some day. --shiro