In article <46e087ef$0$24576$cc2e38e6@news.uslec.net>,
lruss@superlink.net says...

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> I don't think I've ever heard of hardware supporting a 16 bit float
> type, but for all I know it exists.

It does -- a fair amount of semi-recent graphics hardware (e.g. nVidia
7xxx series) supported exactly this.

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Later,
Jerry.

The universe is a figment of its own imagination.