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Regarding my notes on IEEE 754 and its draft revision, Shiro Kawai wrote: > That's very informative summary. Thanks! > 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. Ah, I didn't know that. Thanks! > 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. I suspect that's why 754R has added them to their draft. (There's a note that they debated whether it should have a 4-bit or 5-bit exponent, so the format might not be consistent from system to system yet.) -- Bradd W. Szonye http://www.szonye.com/bradd