I am currently trying to convert a byte array to a Float (16, 32 and 64 bit) without success. I understand the binary structure of a float but not sure how to translate it in motoko. I don’t see any methods in the Float base module that would help and I’m not even sure where to look. Doesn’t seem l…

I think I figured it out using bitshifting, needed to approach it from a different angle public func decodeFloat(bytes: [Nat8]) : ?Float { var bits: Nat64 = Binary.BigEndian.toNat64(bytes); let (exponentBitLength: Nat64, mantissaBitLength: Nat64) = switch(bytes.size()) { …

Floats from bytes in Motoko

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Gekctek August 30, 2022, 10:12pm 10

Because I was implementing byte encoding libraries, I went ahead and made a library for number encoding/extensions for Nat, Int and Float

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