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Re: Differences between IDL's floats and Java's floats - a problem [message #36950 is a reply to message #36948]

Thu, 13 November 2003 05:38

Neil Crosby
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Registered: November 2003

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David Fanning wrote:
> necr@pml.ac.uk writes:
>
> This is a byte order problem. I don't know Java, but
> consider this IDL experiment:
>
>
> IDL> a=[0b, 64b, 206b, 67b]
> IDL> print, float(a,0)
> 412.500
> IDL> b=[67b,206b,64b,0b]
> IDL> print, float(b,0)
> 5.95146e-039
>
> Java is apparently opposite-ended from whatever
> it is you are running on. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David

Thanks David.

*scurries off to try and get it working...*

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		Re: Differences between IDL's floats and Java's floats - a problem By: Nigel Wade on Fri, 14 November 2003 01:41
		Re: Differences between IDL's floats and Java's floats - a problem By: R.G. Stockwell on Thu, 13 November 2003 08:42
		Re: Differences between IDL's floats and Java's floats - a problem By: Neil Crosby on Thu, 13 November 2003 05:38
		Re: Differences between IDL's floats and Java's floats - a problem By: David Fanning on Thu, 13 November 2003 05:05

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