the largest half is 65504. what happens if you convert 65505 to half? 65535? round up, down, undefined? I can't actually find this anywhere
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it's a weird case because regular floats can represent the full integer range, so it doesn't come up there
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@FioraAeterna The same thing happens with 32-bit int and single-precision, or 64-bit int and double, and depends on rounding mode.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@FioraAeterna In rounds-to-nearest, values up to halfway to the 'next' value that would be representable with bigger exp round down. > to +∞
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