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fcharras commented Oct 28, 2022 •
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float32(np.uint32(x >> uint32(32)) >> uint32(8)) * (float32(1) / float32(uint32(1) << uint32(24))) seems to be better, it seems equivalent to casting an intermediate float64 to float32, without actually materializing the float64 !

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