From: Brian Candler <lists@...>
Date: 2012-07-08T06:18:06+09:00
Subject: Re: IEEE extended precision float

And for 44100, my C program gives

00 00 00 00 00 00 44 ac 0e 40 00 00 00 00 00 00

(this looks to be the opposite byte ordering of your example)

str="\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x44\xac\x0e\x40"
mant, exp = str.unpack("QS")
mant * 2.0 ** (exp-16446)
=> 44100.0

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