1# ieee754 [![travis][travis-image]][travis-url] [![npm][npm-image]][npm-url] [![downloads][downloads-image]][downloads-url] [![javascript style guide][standard-image]][standard-url] 2 3[travis-image]: https://img.shields.io/travis/feross/ieee754/master.svg 4[travis-url]: https://travis-ci.org/feross/ieee754 5[npm-image]: https://img.shields.io/npm/v/ieee754.svg 6[npm-url]: https://npmjs.org/package/ieee754 7[downloads-image]: https://img.shields.io/npm/dm/ieee754.svg 8[downloads-url]: https://npmjs.org/package/ieee754 9[standard-image]: https://img.shields.io/badge/code_style-standard-brightgreen.svg 10[standard-url]: https://standardjs.com 11 12[![saucelabs][saucelabs-image]][saucelabs-url] 13 14[saucelabs-image]: https://saucelabs.com/browser-matrix/ieee754.svg 15[saucelabs-url]: https://saucelabs.com/u/ieee754 16 17### Read/write IEEE754 floating point numbers from/to a Buffer or array-like object. 18 19## install 20 21``` 22npm install ieee754 23``` 24 25[Get supported ieee754 with the Tidelift Subscription](https://tidelift.com/subscription/pkg/npm-ieee754?utm_source=npm-ieee754&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=readme) 26 27## methods 28 29`var ieee754 = require('ieee754')` 30 31The `ieee754` object has the following functions: 32 33``` 34ieee754.read = function (buffer, offset, isLE, mLen, nBytes) 35ieee754.write = function (buffer, value, offset, isLE, mLen, nBytes) 36``` 37 38The arguments mean the following: 39 40- buffer = the buffer 41- offset = offset into the buffer 42- value = value to set (only for `write`) 43- isLe = is little endian? 44- mLen = mantissa length 45- nBytes = number of bytes 46 47## what is ieee754? 48 49The IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic (IEEE 754) is a technical standard for floating-point computation. [Read more](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_floating_point). 50 51## license 52 53BSD 3 Clause. Copyright (c) 2008, Fair Oaks Labs, Inc. 54