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@twiecki twiecki commented Mar 9, 2021

Does not exist on Windows and newer OSX versions and furthermore does not to be properly supported even if it does exist: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29820829/cannot-use-128bit-float-in-python-on-64bit-architecture

Closes #4513.

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Fair enough.

I'm a bit surprised that only 3 files had to be changed. Did you search the entire project for "float128"?

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twiecki commented Mar 9, 2021

I did.

@michaelosthege michaelosthege merged commit a7c5646 into master Mar 9, 2021
@michaelosthege michaelosthege deleted the remove_dtype_float128 branch March 9, 2021 10:21
ethervoid pushed a commit to ethervoid/pymc3 that referenced this pull request Jul 1, 2021
* Remove float128 dtype which does not exist on Windows and newer OSX versions and furthermore does not to be properly supported even if it does exist.
* Add float128 to release-notes. Add link to memoization PR.
* Remove unused imports.
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@michaelosthege could be possible to backport this change to the v3? Right now is only in v4 and you can get some problems if you're using an Apple M1

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@ethervoid see #4834

michaelosthege pushed a commit to michaelosthege/pymc that referenced this pull request Jul 5, 2021
Backport of pymc-devs#4514.

Removes float128 dtype which does not exist on Windows and newer OSX versions and furthermore does not to be properly supported even if it does exist.
twiecki added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 5, 2021
Backport of #4514.

Removes float128 dtype which does not exist on Windows and newer OSX versions and furthermore does not to be properly supported even if it does exist.
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Float type 'float128' causes issues and is unnecessary

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