Unpack a floating point value into a list

Assumes LSB is in the 32 or 64 bit of the representation

lofi_to_fp(lofi, float_bits)

dbl_to_fp(dbl)

fp_to_dbl(fp)

fp_to_lofi(fp)

change_format_fp(fp, float_bits = c(1, 8, 7))

Arguments

lofi

floating point number. stored as bits in a a single R integer
float_bits

length (in number of bits) of sign, exponent and mantissa.
dbl

64 bit R floating point real
fp

named list

Value

Return a named list with elements sign, exponent and mantissa