Initializing floating point types with explicit mantisa and exponent

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On Tuesday, 17 January 2017 at 00:08:24 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
> How do I best initialize a D double to an exact mantissa and 
> exponent representation?
>
> I'm specifically interested in
>
>     2^^i for all i in [min_exp, max_exp]

This mach module can do the job: 
https://github.com/pineapplemachine/mach.d/blob/master/mach/math/floats/inject.d