On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM Ilhan Polat via NumPy-Discussion <
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> Whatever the decision would be, could we at least try to use the bit width
> in the name such as float16 as much as possible? Half means nothing and
> gives different platforms different ideas which would be very annoying
> after a decade, every platform went their own way. Also syntactically
> double -> float -> half (not to mention the "long" situation) is not
> consistent either. There is still no guarantee obviously (say complex256
> support on windows) but at least we eliminate the obvious ones.
>

+1

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Francesc Alted
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