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Pulls out an integer representation of the bits of a 32-bit float in javascript. In C/C++, you would do most of this stuff using pointers, for example:
int float2int(float y) {
return *(int*)&y;
}
npm install float-bits
> var fb = require("float-bits")
> fb(1.0)
1065353216
> fb.toInt(-1.0)
-1082130432
> fb.fromInt(-1054867456)
-10.0
> fb.toUint(31)
1106771968
> fb.fromUint(1056964608)
0.5
require("float-bits")(y)Returns a signed integer representing the bits of the float encoded by y.
require("float-bits").toInt(y)Same as require("float-bits")
require("float-bits").fromInt(y)Converts a signed integer reprsenting the bits of y
require("float-bits").toUint(y)Converts a float to an unsigned integer
require("float-bits").fromUint(y)Converts an unsigned integer to a float
(c) 2013 Mikola Lysenko. MIT License
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Pulls out the bits from floating point numbers
We found that float-bits demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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