> > Is this related to minifloats? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minifloat >
Strictly speaking, yes, although after a brief introduction to the general idea, the entry on that page focuses entirely on the interpretation of the values as integers. My code *only* represents the values in the same way as the regular-sized IEEE 754 formats, i.e. the smallest representable number is a fraction < 1, not the integer 1. I haven't supplied a way to use my classes to encode integers in this way, but it wouldn't be hard for someone to add that functionality in a sub-class of my ContextClass. Thanks for pointing out that page, anyway. I didn't know the smaller formats had been given their own name. -Rob -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
