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That's the reason why they introduced https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bfloat16_floating-point_format
It's similar to normal half precision float but the exponent is the same as with 32bit float and mantissa has been sacrificed to get room for it.
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That's the reason why they introduced https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bfloat16_floating-point_format
It's similar to normal half precision float but the exponent is the same as with 32bit float and mantissa has been sacrificed to get room for it.