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@ -368,6 +368,10 @@ Some standouts:
double-precision](https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/notebooks/Common_Gotchas_in_JAX.html#Double-(64bit)-precision)
(64-bit, e.g. `float64`) one needs to set the `jax_enable_x64` variable at
startup (or set the environment variable `JAX_ENABLE_X64=True`).
On TPU, JAX uses 32-bit values by default for everything _except_ internal
temporary variables in 'matmul-like' operations, such as `jax.numpy.dot` and `lax.conv`.
Those ops have a `precision` parameter which can be used to simulate
true 32-bit, with a cost of possibly slower runtime.
1. Some of NumPy's dtype promotion semantics involving a mix of Python scalars
and NumPy types aren't preserved, namely `np.add(1, np.array([2],
np.float32)).dtype` is `float64` rather than `float32`.