Add new floating point literal constructor using IEEE754 bitpattern #364
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As discussed in #360, currently, floating point literals cannot be directly created if the user has access to the bit pattern of the value. Therefore, this PR adds support for this using the new
makeNumber(BigInteger exponent, BigInteger mantissa, boolean signBit, FloatingPointType type)
method.I added a test to verify that no trivial mistakes were made. Let me know if I should add more.