A search engine will also show that the use of the word "mantissa" in relation to floating point numbers is discouraged in favor of "significand". "it is an ab

A search engine will also show that the use of the word "mantissa" in relation to floating point numbers is discouraged in favor of "significand". "it is an abuse of terminology to call the fraction part a mantissa, since this concept has quite a different meaning in connection with logarithms"[1] –DEK [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significand#Use_of_.22mantissa.22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significand#Use_of_.22mantissa...