I'm sure that there are valid reasons to want to do this, but if your find yours...

rcthompson on March 15, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to generate a double-precision floating-point ...

I'm sure that there are valid reasons to want to do this, but if your find yourself needing to do this, I think you should at least consider whether there might be some other way to get what you want.