title: Saving a Float Variable with less than 64bit in PYTHON
body: <p>In my PYTHON program, I am loading a lot of (floating) numbers for later use. I am talking about 100 Million numbers or more. It seems that I run into problems with memory space on RAM. Since the numbers I am saving do not need to have a high precision (3-4 digits would be more than enough) and are usually small (in the range -1000 .. 1000) I do not use the precision provided by a 64bit float. </p>
  
  <p>Is there a possibility to save a floating number using less memory (maybe 8 or 16 bit)? </p>
  
  <p>Thank you!</p>