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This package is suitable to evaluate whether using BFloat16 would cause
precision problems for any particular algorithm, even without access to supporting
hardware. Note that this package is designed for functionality, not performance,
so this package should be used for precision experiments only, not performance
experiments.
hardware.

Native hardware support, implemented in this package, began with Julia 1.11 via `Core.BFloat16` with support for Intel processors (x86_64, i686) via LLVM 16. Support for 64-bit ARM processors (aarch64) is is available with Julia 1.12 which uses LLVM 19.
## Usage

This package exports the `BFloat16` data type. This datatype behaves
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