From 9e8bf666147f32f45debf0e1cc2b960c4e1b7e61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Wiebe Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 20:16:07 -0800 Subject: DOC: Add release note mention of float16 type --- doc/release/2.0.0-notes.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/release') 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 ======= -- cgit v1.2.1