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jimktrains2 on March 9, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: DEC64: Decimal Floating Point

Mantissa is also used as the number being multiplied by a base to a power on calculators. That's basically what it is in floats.

NAFV_P on March 9, 2014 [–]

I use the term "significand", because the mantissa is logarithmic, the significand isn't.

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