Inconsistent `floattype` result to `float`

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#127 opened on Aug 9, 2019 3 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Description

`FixedPointNumbers.floattype` seems inconsistent to `Base.float`

```julia
julia> float(Int8)
Float64

julia> floattype(Int8)
Float32
```

Should we update accordingly?

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