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IEEE Standard 754 floating point number [message #4210]

Sun, 14 May 1995 00:00

bso
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Registered: May 1995

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I'm using the Macintosh version of IDL that supports 32-bit floats and 64-bit
double precision floats. I need to read some 80-bit IEEE Standard 754 floats
from a binary file. If I read those 10 bytes with a READU into a BYTARR(10),
how do I get a floating-point value out of that byte array?

Bosco So | bso@acm.org
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