Encoding and decoding IEEE 754 floats in JavaScript

Note that as of node 0.6 this functionality is included in the core library, so that is the new best way to do it.

See http://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/buffer.html for details.

If you are reading/writing binary data structures you might consider using a friendly wrapper around this functionality to make things easier to read and maintain. Plug follows: https://github.com/dobesv/node-binstruct