Float>fromIEEE32Bit: claims it works for positive values only. 
Judging from the code and the results it produces negative numbers 
work just fine. So I think the line

  word negative ifTrue: [^ self error:'Cannot deal with negative numbers'].

should be removed.

Georg
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