Reads numeric data generated by interpretive BASIC.
This field type specifies the interpretive BASIC (IBM PC) standard adopted by most BASIC language microcomputer software for floating-point representation. However, it differs from the 8087 and 80287 mathematical co-processors, the 486 and Pentium CPU’s and most other PC software.
As is the norm for microcomputer numeric field types, the least significant byte of the significand (mantissa) is sequentially stored first, through to the most significant byte of the exponent. In other words, the bytes are stored in reverse order. The length of this field type is either 4 or 8 bytes, as defined by the standard. See Float for a description of the 8087 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) format.