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From: mjs@sfmag.UUCP (M.J.Shannon)
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Subject: Re: Uses of "float:16" ?
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Date: Wed, 9-Oct-85 01:44:22 EDT
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>>>Then you can define
>>>
>>>float foo:16;
>>>
>>>if you really think you can do something useful with 16-bit floats. Someone
>>>must use them for something...
>>
>>Just such a construct is used in the accounting software in many UNIX System
>>kernels.  It seems to suffice for the application.
>
>Great, a violation of the C language spec in the kernel.

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that the syntactic construct is used, rather that
a 16-bit quantity is used to represent some floating point values.  I believe
the exponent is 3 bits.
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