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# F8: 8-bit floats
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<div class="warning">Not for production use!</div>
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F8 is a toy software floating-point math library.
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It provides an 8-bit floating point type `F8`, with 5 mantissa bits, 3 exponent bits, and no sign bit.
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The format used resembles [IEEE 754] binary formats but stripped down to the bare necessities: the only special value supported is zero.
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[IEEE 754]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754
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