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Definition of Mantissa

Mantissa
Mantissa Man*tis*sa, n. [L., an addition, makeweight; of Tuscan origin.] (Math.) The decimal part of a logarithm, as distinguished from the integral part, or characteristic.

Meaning of Mantissa from wikipedia

- Look up mantissa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mantissa ( /mænˈtɪsə/) may refer to: Mantissa (logarithm), the fractional part of the common (base-10)...
- significand (also coefficient, sometimes argument, or more ambiguously mantissa, fraction, or characteristic) is the first (left) part of a number in scientific...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Mantissa Plantarum Altera (abbreviated Mant. Pl. Alt.) is an illustrated book with botanical descriptions which was edited by the Swedish naturalist Carl...
- politics, LGBT subculture and identity politics. In his books Mantissa Plantarum (1767) and Mantissa Plantarum Altera (1771), Carl Linnaeus regularly used the...
- known as the mantissa; by contrast with the mantissa, the integral part of a logarithm is called its characteristic. The word mantissa was introduced...
- 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...
- In computing, signed number representations are required to encode negative numbers in binary number systems. In mathematics, negative numbers in any base...