On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Just out of curiosity, is the layout of numpy's float16 > based on any existing standard, or is it something purely > invented by numpy? >> If it's a standard format, that would lend more weight > to the idea of supporting it in the buffer interface. Per my understanding (I haven't gone and cross-checked the code with the spec, however), it's based on IEEE 754-2008: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_precision_floating-point_format Eli