It's an IEEE standard format:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-precision_floating-point_format#IEEE_754_half-precision_binary_floating-point_format:_binary16
This is what I see:
writeBin(vec , con, size=2 )
Error in writeBin(vec, con, size = 2) : size 2 is unknown on this machine
I'm not sure what the machine has to do with it. It's really up to the
software, isn't it?
Is there a way to get R to read/write half-precision numbers (binary16)?
It isn't a big deal for me because unsigned 16-bit integers are working
well enough, but I'd like to have an answer for people who ask why I make
them divide by 1000 all the time. ;-)
Mike
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