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http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/johnstlr/210/BitManip.html should get you going. Dave Homiak dhomiak@xxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: Wilson, Andrew, J [mailto:andrew.wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 7:57 AM To: visad-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Bit twiddling in Java I need to convert some IBM formatted floating point data from a binary file so I can read into VisAd. This uses a different number of bits for the exponent and mantissa than is used by the IEEE representation. Can anyone point me at code or a tutorial on bit-twiddling in Java? Andrew
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