Curious Omission In New-Style Formats
Marko Rauhamaa
marko at pacujo.net
Thu Jul 14 12:02:27 EDT 2016
Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com>:
> The significand of -3.14159 is the sequence of digits 314159. The
> mantissa of -3.14159 is the number 0.85841.
Fight it all you want. However:
In American English, the original word for [significand] seems to
have been mantissa (Burks[1] et al.), and this usage remains common
in computing and among computer scientists.
<URL:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significand#Use_of_.22mantissa.22>
This digit string is referred to as the significand, mantissa, or
coefficient.
<URL:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point#Floating-point_numbers>
and, FWIW:
Liukulukuun kuuluu neljä osaa: etumerkki (s), mantissa (m), kantaluku
(k) ja eksponentti (c). [...]
x = (−1)^s mk^c.
<URL: https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liukuluku>
Marko
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