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awk does not work with binary data - it is a reporting tool, and was coded to use text - ie., it doesn't treat ASCII nul as anything but the end of a string. Your numeric binary data will be trashed.
You are going to have to consider C. perl and other non-compiled languages support 32 bit doubles, there may be some extensions to perl 64 bit double support. I do not know.