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Re:16-bit math look-up tables – the unexpected power of scal... by jacobolus on Saturday April 01, 2017 @08:23PM (#14014967)
What if we want both NaN and infinity?
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Re:16-bit math look-up tables – the unexpected power of scal... by dnautics on Saturday April 01, 2017 @09:15PM (#14015149)
if you really want both, then either 1) use IEEE floats or 2) write your own data type, or 3) used a boxed data type, which is really the best solution for the dominant "missing data" abuse case anyways.
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