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mantissa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Mantissa ( /mænˈtɪsə/) may
refer to:
Mantissa (logarithm), the
fractional part of the
common (base-10)...
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significand (also coefficient,
sometimes argument, or more
ambiguously mantissa, fraction, or characteristic) is the
first (left) part of a
number in scientific...
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Mantissa is a
novel by
British author John
Fowles published in 1982. It
consists entirely of a
presumably imaginary dialogue in a writer's head, between...
- is
known as the
mantissa. Thus, log
tables need only show the
fractional part.
Tables of
common logarithms typically listed the
mantissa, to four or five...
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Mantissa were an
Australian hard rock band
which formed as
Killing Time in 1989.
Killing Time
included Nina
Grant on b****
guitar and vocals,
Chris Paine...
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Mantissa Plantarum Altera (abbreviated Mant. Pl. Alt.) is an
illustrated book with
botanical descriptions which was
edited by the
Swedish naturalist Carl...
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exponent with a zero
mantissa. The zero
exponent means zero is a
subnormal number with a
leading "0." prefix, and with the zero
mantissa all bits
after the...
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known as the
mantissa; by
contrast with the
mantissa, the
integral part of a
logarithm is
called its characteristic. The word
mantissa was introduced...
- In computing,
signed number representations are
required to
encode negative numbers in
binary number systems. In mathematics,
negative numbers in any base...
- politics, LGBT
subculture and
identity politics. In his
books Mantissa Plantarum (1767) and
Mantissa Plantarum Altera (1771), Carl
Linnaeus regularly used the...
