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| author | Mark Wiebe <mwwiebe@gmail.com> | 2010-12-01 20:16:07 -0800 |
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| committer | Mark Wiebe <mwwiebe@gmail.com> | 2010-12-01 20:16:07 -0800 |
| commit | 9e8bf666147f32f45debf0e1cc2b960c4e1b7e61 (patch) | |
| tree | fd694da6c3ecf8fb70079d7b6ad7e1e581765bb0 | |
| parent | 2ee163942a7461b14f53523dadbda7b4e5e18efd (diff) | |
| download | numpy-9e8bf666147f32f45debf0e1cc2b960c4e1b7e61.tar.gz | |
DOC: Add release note mention of float16 type
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diff --git a/doc/release/2.0.0-notes.rst b/doc/release/2.0.0-notes.rst index cb5bdf14b..3953960a4 100644 --- a/doc/release/2.0.0-notes.rst +++ b/doc/release/2.0.0-notes.rst @@ -10,6 +10,13 @@ Highlights New features ============ +New 16-bit floating point type +------------------------------ + +This release adds support for the IEEE 754-2008 binary16 +format, available as the data type `numpy.half`. Within Python, +the type behaves similarly to `float` or `double`, and C extensions +can add support for it with the exposed half-float API. Changes ======= |