The 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. Pr

The 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.