title: MASM Assembly: Storing a floating point
body: <p>I am trying to figure out how to store a floating point into MASM and understand how is it stored. For example, if I have the number:</p>
  
  <pre><code>1234.56_10 ;Base 10
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Where I have to store it and convert it into base 10. What would I have to do to store the <code>.56</code> value? I was thinking of storing <code>1234</code> first, converting it into base 10; then storing <code>.56</code>, also convert it, and to later add them both together.</p>
  
  <p>But the problem I have is with storing <code>.56</code>. I don't know how to store it, and I do not know how is it stored into memory. Is it stored as an ASCII character? Or is it stored differently?</p>