Floating point Endianness?

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Floating-point and endianness

On some machines, while integers were
represented in little-endian form,
floating point numbers were
represented in big-endian form.
Because there are many floating point
formats, and a lack of a standard
“network” representation, no standard
for transferring floating point values
has been made. This means that
floating point data written on one
machine may not be readable on
another, and this is the case even if
both use IEEE 754 floating point
arithmetic since the endianness of the
memory representation is not part of
the IEEE specification.

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