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From: Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de>
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Subject: Re: short float
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2020 14:49:47 +0100
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The proposal is dead anyway. Many, including Nvidia, now see float,
double and long double as mistakes that can't be undone, but shouldn't
be repeated either.
They'd prefer all floating-point formats to be defined precisely down to
the last bit in representation and semantics.

Philipp