FLOAT
The data is a single-precision, floating-point, binary number. If you specify end in the POSITION clause, end is ignored. The length of the field is the length of a single-precision, floating-point binary number on your system. (The datatype is FLOAT in C.) This length cannot be overridden in the control file.
FLOAT can be loaded with correct results only between systems where the representation of a FLOAT is compatible and of the same length. If the byte order is different between the two systems, use the appropriate technique to indicate the byte order of the data. See Byte Ordering.