https://www.nuget.org/packages/Half/
see wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-precision_floating-point_format
Widely used in game, and deep learning. Some GPU has hardware support for such type.
This code is just the host of the gist by: Author Ladislav Lang (2009), Joannes Vermorel (2017)
https://gist.github.com/vermorel/1d5c0212752b3e611faf84771ad4ff0d
License header on the gist is kind of public domain, in order to have some license can be searched, it is listed as MIT
The code is free to use for any reason without any restrictions
dotnet 5 (Nov 2020) has built in Half type, so this file is not needed
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.half?view=net-5.0
For historical interest, I still want to use it. so I make a repo from this gist. If needed could make a nuget package to make life easier
The API are similar, yet fully checked,
it is possible to change namespace from SystemHalf (as in the original gist) to just System
The output assembly name is System.Half.dll to avoid conflicting with some native win32 dll with the name Half.dll.
BitConverter.IsLittleEndian, this depends on CPU, although most CPU are little endian in modern days
C# BitConverter
Covnert.ToUint16()
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59728656/c-sharp-16-bit-float-conversions
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.bitconverter?view=net-5.0
To generate project each time to fit with dotnet-version
dotnet new classlib --output System.Half --force
dotnet build System.Half --configuration Release
To target on different dotnet framework, may manually edit Half.Tests.csproj file
dotnet build Half.Tests && dotnet test Half.Tests
all passed on Ubuntu 20.04
dotnet pack System.Half --configuration Release will generate the nuget package from System.Half.csproj file
Auto build package is yet done.