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2011 Apr 14
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integer and floating-point storage
...ed with
perfect precision as 127/127 and 254/127 (but I would do regression on the
integer values). Or I could use 16 bits, doubling memory load and
improving precision. It would be convenient if R could work with
half-precision floating-point numbers (binary16):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_precision_floating-point_format
Can R do that?
If not, is anyone interested in working on developing some of these
features in R? We have GPL code from PLINK and Octave that might help a
lot.
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Integer-Data-Types.html
Best,
Mike
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Michael B. Miller, Ph.D.
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