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+'use strict';
+require('../common');
+const assert = require('assert');
+
+// testing basic functionality of readFloatBE()
+
+const buf = Buffer.from([42, 84, 168, 127, 130]);
+const result = buf.readFloatBE(1);
+
+assert.strictEqual(result, 5789549854720);
+
+assert.throws(
+  () => {
+    buf.readFloatBE(2);
+  },
+  /Index out of range/
+);