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		lostmsu on Aug 31, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Floating points between zero and one If you use f16 or f8, you could even reasonably plot the result.

tialaramex on Aug 31, 2024 [–]

Rust doesn't provide an f8 type, and it only provides f16 in nightly builds for now.

I don't see additional value in "plotting the result" for f16 over f32. 65536 values is too many to understand it other than as a pattern, and the patterns is present in f32. Can you elaborate ?

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