Reads a decimal value as a IEEE-11073 16-bits float from ByteBuffer - Java Language Basics

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Reads a decimal value as a IEEE-11073 16-bits float from ByteBuffer

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//package com.java2s;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Reads a decimal value as a IEEE-11073 16-bits float
     * @param data byte buffer to read the 2 bytes from
     * @return java float value decoded from the given bytes
     */
    public static float readHealthFloat16(ByteBuffer data) {
        byte b0 = data.get();
        byte b1 = data.get();
        int mantissa = unsignedToSigned((b0 & 0xFF) + ((b1 & 0x0F) << 8),
                12);
        int exponent = unsignedToSigned((b1 & 0xFF) >> 4, 4);
        return (float) (mantissa * Math.pow(10, exponent));
    }

    private static int unsignedToSigned(int unsigned, int size) {
        if ((unsigned & (1 << size - 1)) != 0)
            unsigned = -1
                    * ((1 << size - 1) - (unsigned & ((1 << size - 1) - 1)));
        return unsigned;
    }
}

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