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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 ======= |