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Converting IEEE 754 Floating Point into Binary

This post explains how to convert floating point numbers to binary numbers in the IEEE 754 format.  A good link on the subject of IEEE 754 conversion exists at Thomas Finleys website . For this post I will stick with the IEEE 754 single precision binary floating-point format: binary32. See this other posting for C++, Java and Python implementations for converting between the binary and decimal formats.