4-bit floating point FP4
John Cook
In ancient times, floating point numbers were stored in 32 bits. Then somewhere along the way 64 bits became standard. The C programming language retains the ancient lore, using float to refer to a 32-bit floating point number and double to refer to a floating point number with double the number of bits. Python simply […] The post 4-bit floating point FP4 first appeared on John D. Cook .