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Michael Ray-Von YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 4	4-Byte Floats Apr 7th, 2010, 8:49pm   Hello I'm trying to convert 4-byte BIG-endian floats into Processing float.  For example, I might have these four bytes: 35 3A CC CF; which should convert to 6.95 e-7.  I'm able to convert 1 byte, such as 1A --> 26, but I'm having trouble with 4-byte floats.  Any Ideas? How is the Processing float constructed?

JohnG Ex Member	Re: 4-Byte Floats Reply #1 - Apr 8th, 2010, 4:54am   Endian-ness doens't affect the order of bits normally, just of the bytes, so the only thing you'd have to do is swap the byte chunks around. And it seems that the endian-ness isn't a problem with your values: Code: float f=Float.intBitsToFloat(0x353ACCCF); println(f);

Michael Ray-Von YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 4	Re: 4-Byte Floats Reply #2 - Apr 8th, 2010, 11:00am   problem solved!  thanks very much!