I'm lecturing a course that will include basic machine arithmetic, and the 
bits function looks very helpful.  But is there a way to go back?  I.e., I 
want a frombits to do:


str=bits(1.0f0)    # returns *"00111111100000000000000000000000"*
*frombits(Float32,str)  # should return 1.0f0*


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