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		adgjlsfhk1 on Nov 28, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Floating point visually explained (2017) Julia is missing 32 bit and 16 bit hex floats unfortunately.

simonbyrne on Nov 28, 2021 [–]

You can just wrap the literal in a conversion function, eg Float32(0x1p52), which should get constant propagated at compile time.

adgjlsfhk1 on Nov 28, 2021 | [–]

I know, it just isn't as nice to read.

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