> the issue that there is no widespread lossless text exchange format for FP. If you have to use strings as the intermediate representation (why?) Then printf(

> the issue that there is no widespread lossless text exchange format for FP. If you have to use strings as the intermediate representation (why?) Then printf("%x") and scanf("%x") is perfectly lossless and widespread. The only thing that's lossy is converting floats to decimal point numbers, which is absolutely silly if it's just two machines communicating.