Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
    > let s = encode (1.1 :: Float)
    > :t s
    s :: Data.ByteString.Lazy.ByteString
    > s
    LPS ["\NUL\NUL\140\204\205\255\255\255\255\255\255\255\233"]

    > decode s :: Float
    1.1

But doesn't Data.Binary serialise to a guaranteed representation, i.e. machine-independent? Whereas this (stupid) question explicitly asked for *your particular hardware's* floating point rep.

Jules
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