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> I can think of a few possible problems with IEEE754-across-the-wire, such as: > - not all hardware supports them let's be reasonable : how many people who r
by jcelerier 8y ago
> I can think of a few possible problems with IEEE754-across-the-wire, such as:
> - not all hardware supports them
let's be reasonable : how many people who run architectures which don't have any float would actually send floats to them over the network ?
- gnufx 8y agoThe parent didn't say "don't have any float". I have had to translate between little endian IEEE754 and big endian IBM format, roughly copying what HDF did. Protein crystallographers invented their own binary file format rather than just using HDF, and didn't define the binary floating point format, so that the files weren't portable initially.