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  • You would really need to know how the value was written. For example, there are many different float point standards (IEEE has three popular ones for two, four and eight bytes floats). But some formats may choose to compress numbers using some algorithm, of course they could also write it assuming big or little endian reader. There are also less orthodox float point formats (with exponent being base 10 for eg.) It would usually make more sense to interpret binary data as some specific format. Commented Oct 12, 2014 at 17:17
  • That is exactly what I am asking for - binary data interpreted in a variety of data formats. Commented Oct 13, 2014 at 14:38