To give some intuition here, it’s not crazy to think that getting a bunch of different 8 bit precision information intended to be combined would get you roughly

To give some intuition here, it’s not crazy to think that getting a bunch of different 8 bit precision information intended to be combined would get you roughly 32 bits of precision. Especially when it’s not always (often?) the case that for a particular weight you’ll need the edges of that mantissa.