New Function Request: Convert Between Binary & Floating Point Representations

[Former user]

I work in embedded systems where I am interacting with floating point numbers transmitted over a network. I spend a fair amount of time taking a floating point number and converting to its binary representation or converting in the other direction.

When I have internet access I use http://www.h-schmidt.net/FloatConverter/IEEE754.html to do the conversion but I don't always have that access and quite often I need to do arithmetic before I produce the floating point number for transmission on the network or arithmetic on the number read from the network.

Hence, I feel that bin2float & float2bin functions would be useful additions to speedcrunch.

[Pol Welter]

You'll be glad to hear that this feature is already implemented in the soon to be released version :)

[Jeremy Oakes]

I would like to also add that as an embedded developer a whole collection of these functions would be beneficial i.e. float-32, float-64, float-80, and possibly float-128.

[Pol Welter]

They will all be there, no worries.