diff --git a/src/obj.cpp b/src/obj.cpp
index 2d1ca1e5..a4ff2dd3 100644
--- a/src/obj.cpp
+++ b/src/obj.cpp
@@ -94,7 +94,9 @@ static uint64_t readParenExpression(const string &s, const map<string, Word> &d,
   exit(1);
 }
 
+int lexerBits;
 Obj *AsmReader::read(std::istream &input) {
+  lexerBits = wordSize;
   FlexLexer *f = new yyFlexLexer(&input);
   Obj *o = new Obj();
   std::vector<Chunk>::reverse_iterator cur;
diff --git a/src/scanner.lex b/src/scanner.lex
index e9aea7b0..b8ca051b 100644
--- a/src/scanner.lex
+++ b/src/scanner.lex
@@ -14,15 +14,24 @@
 #include <iostream>
 
 #include "include/asm-tokens.h"
+#include "include/harpfloat.h"
 
+extern int lexerBits;
 static int64_t read_number(const char *s) {
-  long long u;
   while (!isdigit(*s) && *s != '-' && *s != '+') s++;
 
-  sscanf(s, "%lli", &u);
-  return u;
+  if (strchr(s, 'f') || strchr(s, '.')) {
+    double d;
+    sscanf(s, "%f", &d);
+    return Harp::Word_u(Harp::Float(d, lexerBits));
+  } else {
+    long long u;
+    sscanf(s, "%lli", &u);
+    return u;
+  }
 }
 
+
 static std::string label_name(const char *cs) {
   return std::string(cs, strlen(cs)-1);
 }
@@ -40,8 +49,9 @@ using namespace HarpTools;
 sym [A-Za-z_.][A-Za-z0-9_.]*
 decnum [1-9][0-9]* 
 hexnum 0x[0-9a-f]+
-octnum 0[0-9]*
-num [+-]?({decnum}|{hexnum}|{octnum})
+octnum 0[0-7]*
+floatnum ([0-9]+f|[0-9]*\.[0-9]+)
+num [+-]?({decnum}|{hexnum}|{octnum}|{floatnum})
 space [ \t]*
 peoperator ("+"|"-"|"*"|"/"|"%"|"&"|"|"|"^"|"<<"|">>")
 parenexp "("({num}|{sym}|{peoperator}|{space}|"("|")")+")"
@@ -52,7 +62,7 @@ endl \r?\n
   /* Ignore comments but keep line count consistent. */
   for (const char *c = YYText(); *c; c++) if (*c == '\n') yyline++;
 }
-
+to
 <INITIAL>\.def    { BEGIN DEFARGS;    return ASM_T_DIR_DEF;    }
 <INITIAL>\.perm   { BEGIN PERMARGS;   return ASM_T_DIR_PERM;   }
 <INITIAL>\.byte   { BEGIN WORDARGS;   return ASM_T_DIR_BYTE;   }
diff --git a/src/test/dotprod.s b/src/test/dotprod.s
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a73886c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/dotprod.s
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+/*******************************************************************************
+ HARPtools by Chad D. Kersey, Summer 2011
+********************************************************************************
+
+ Sample HARP assmebly program.
+
+*******************************************************************************/
+/* sieve of eratosthanes: Find some primes. */
+.def SIZE 0x1000
+
+.align 4096
+.perm x
+.entry
+.global
+entry: /* . . . */
+
+       trap;
+ 
+/* Return in r0 dot product of vectors of real values pointed to by r0 and r1,
+   length in r2 */
+dotprod: ldi %r3, #0;
+dploop:  ld %r4, %r0, #0;
+         ld %r5, %r1, #0;
+         subi %r2, %r2, #1;
+         addi %r0, %r0, __WORD;
+         addi %r1, %r1, __WORD;
+         rtop @p0, %r2;
+         fadd %r4, %r4, %r5;
+         fadd %r3, %r3, %r4;
+   @p0 ? jmpi dploop;
+
+.perm rw
+
+array_a: .word 1.0 2.0 3.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 0.33 0.67 1.0 1.33
+array_b: .word 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0
+	
+.global
+array: .space 0x1000 /* SIZE words of space. */
+