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Eight-bit floating point
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/04/15/eight-bit-floating-point/
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The idea of an 8-bit floating point number sounds kinda crazy at first, but they come in handy in applications where you don't need much precision and you're memory constrained. Comparing IEEE-like numbers and posit numbers.
