how to convert 3 byte to float

[Mario M. Mueller]

Tommy Nordgren wrote:
[...]
> One thing to consider: It is possible that one of the bytes
> contributes bits to BOTH the mantissa and the exponent ; 

>From todays point of view I cannot exclude this.

> Do you know the relative 
> accurazy of the digitizer?

Not yet. It's seismic data, that implies:

- values will be positive and negative
- value range should cover several orders of magnitude

Mario