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Converting Double to binary

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richrock316

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I may be just overlooking it but, how do you convert a value that is of type double to a binary type without stripping it?

For example how can I make the value 3.45 as a binary value?

Thanks in advance
 
Converting integers is fairly simple but, for floating point numbers like double, you need to settle on a convention to use. VB uses the IEEE 754 convention and there's a Wikipedia article on it here.

As you will note, it's not a trivial exercise.
 
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