Add notice explaining absence of floating point support.

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</li>
</ul>
<div align="center">
<center>
<table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="90%">
<tr>
<td width="100%">
<p align="center"><b><font size="4">Notice</font></b></p>
<p align="left">This first release (1.58.0) of the Endian library as an
official Boost library removes for floating point type support that was
present in the mini-review pre-release. Floating point types will be
supported in the Boost 1.59.0 release with a slightly modified floating
point conversion interface and implementation that addresses reliability
concerns.</td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>
</div>
<h2><a name="Introduction-to-endianness">Introduction to endianness</a></h2>
<p>Consider the following code:</p>