Question

In flash, performing bitwise operations on Number always strips away the floating part.
Is there a way, in flash, to get the bit representation of a Number?

I have tried googling but either I couldn’t phrase it well enough, or it isn’t that easy to find.

Edit, to clear something up: I specifically Number, that is the class which represents Floating Point Number in Flash, not number in general. I suppose I could have wrote Is there a way, in flash, to get the bit represebtation of a floating point number?

Answer 1

the only way that I can think of off the top of my head is to use a ByteArray

Something like this:

        var x:Number = 1.532;
        var ba:ByteArray = new ByteArray();
        ba.writeDouble(x);
        ba.position = 0;

        var high32bits:uint = ba.readUnsignedInt();
        var low32bits:uint = ba.readUnsignedInt();

        trace(high32bits.toString(16));  // 3ff88312
        trace(low32bits.toString(16));   // 6e978d50