This reminds me that at one point Lucene was using an 8-bit floating point format for its normalization factors (I don't know if they still do): https://lucene

This reminds me that at one point Lucene was using an 8-bit floating point format for its normalization factors (I don't know if they still do): https://lucene.apache.org/core/3_0_3/fileformats.html#N107EF https://lucene.apache.org/core/3_0_3/fileformats.html#N107EF