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it's patented? 16 bit floats have been a thing for a long time.. :/ edit: never mind. somehow convinced myself that this was just 16 bit floating point arithme
by foxhill 13y ago
it's patented? 16 bit floats have been a thing for a long time.. :/
edit: never mind. somehow convinced myself that this was just 16 bit floating point arithmetic. it is not.
- smoyer 13y agoI wrote an IEEE single-point compatible floating point library for embedded 8088/8086 processors in the mid-to-late '80s ... my employer was very cheap! On the other hand, I learned a ton about efficient ways to implement various algorithms and remember a great way to do square roots that involved an initial multiplication (using normalized binary FP numbers) and then converged in about six iterations.