[Python-ideas] Adding a half-float (16-bit) type to PEP 3118 (and possibly the struct module?)

[Terry Reedy]

On 3/31/2011 1:58 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Robert Kern<robert.kern at gmail.com>  wrote:
> ..
>> The proposed letter code is 'e', as used in numpy. I'm not sure of the logic
>> that went behind the choice, except perhaps that 'e' is near 'd' and 'f'.
>
> So it is  'e' for half,

No, 'e' for 'elfin' ;-).

  'f' for single and 'd' for double.
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Terry Jan Reedy