Two things about floats in OM that I just recalled:

1. The endianness of floats in hex representation is unclear; the text says 
one thing, but the example given has the opposite endianness. I've filed a 
bug about that once.

2. The standard only covers 64-bit (I think it was) IEEE floats, but the 
current IEEE 754 standard defines 32n-bit floats for all integers n>=4. (Cf. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754-2008#Interchange_formats) Someone might 
want to consider similarly extending the OM floats.

Lars Hellström

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