mantissa
Noun
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Noun
mantissa (plural mantissas)
- (obsolete) A minor addition to a text.
- (mathematics) The part of a common logarithm after the decimal point, the fractional part of a logarithm.
- (mathematics, computing) The significand; that part of a floating-point number or number in scientific notation that contains its significant digits.
- Synonyms: significand
- French: mantisse
- German: Mantisse
- Italian: mantissa
- Portuguese: mantissa
- Russian: манти́сса
- Spanish: mantisa
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