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The following code can be used to convert a byte array (containing the bytes of a long) into a long.

	public static long byteArrayToLong(byte[] bytes) {
		long l = 0;
		for (int i=0; i<8; i++) {
			l <<= 8;
			l ^= (long) bytes[i] & 0xff;
		}
		return l;
	}

This is the reverse of “How to convert a long to a byte array“.

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The Double class contains two methods that return a representation of a floating point value according to the IEEE 754 floating-point “double format” bit layout.

The first, doubleToLongBits() does not preserve NaN and returns it as 0×7ff8000000000000L.

The second, doubleToRawLongBits() does preserve NaN and returns the representation of the actual NaN value.

The long returned by these methods can then be converted to a byte array.

byte[] array = longToByteArray(Double.doubleToRawLongBits(doubleValue));

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The following code can be used to extract the 8 bytes from a long value and return them as a byte array

public static byte[] longToByteArray(long data) {
    return new byte[] {
        (byte)((data >> 56) & 0xff),
        (byte)((data >> 48) & 0xff),
        (byte)((data >> 40) & 0xff),
        (byte)((data >> 32) & 0xff),
        (byte)((data >> 24) & 0xff),
        (byte)((data >> 16) & 0xff),
        (byte)((data >> 8 ) & 0xff),
        (byte)((data >> 0) & 0xff),
    };
}

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