I am trying to convert a decimal number to an IEEE 754 standard floating point number. I am using the formula -1*s *1.m*2^e-127 where s is the sign bit, m is the mantissa and e is the exponent, but I can't get it to give the correct results. Are there any VB add ons available I can use to do this? I know Java has floating point functions built in but I don't know if I can access these from VB?? Any ideas?