The single-precision floating-point encodings on the supported computers are either IEEE 754 floating-point or Digital's F_FLOAT floating-point. There are also two different byte orderings for the computers that use IEEE 754 (big-endian and little-endian). The single-precision floating-point encodings for each supported computer are shown in Table 2.4. Network (XDR) encoding uses IEEE 754 (big-endian) encoding for single-precision floating-point data types.
Table 2.4: Equivalent Single-Precision Floating-Point