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  Re: 8-bit floating-point number representations?
 
(...) Well, basically, whatever is fast and flexible -- whatever that turns out to be. It might even turn out that a fixed-point representation is flexible enough and maybe even faster since it would involve only a single floating- point multiply by (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: 8-bit floating-point number representations?
 
(...) <snip> (...) Aah, with your external tables, 0 to 15 would work well. You don't even need to scale it really since the output of your algorithm is just the relative ranking of articles. It would be easy to generate a 0-15 rating for the (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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