/* A floatformat consists of a sign bit, an exponent and a mantissa. Once the
bytes are concatenated according to the byteorder flag, then each of those
fields is contiguous. We number the bits with 0 being the most significant
/* A floatformat consists of a sign bit, an exponent and a mantissa. Once the
bytes are concatenated according to the byteorder flag, then each of those
fields is contiguous. We number the bits with 0 being the most significant