Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
