Machine learning might also prefer focusing on the magnitude rather than an exact value. (With the lower precision number part more about being nudged between m

Machine learning might also prefer focusing on the magnitude rather than an exact value. (With the lower precision number part more about being nudged between magnitude bins.) E.G. bfloat16 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bfloat16_floating-point_format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bfloat16_floating-point_format