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There are many ways to represent 1, but it’s still 1.

• deleted 6y ago
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• freyr 6y ago
  It’s 1, but is it a mantissa? The linked Wikipedia article just says that the mantissa is “the fractional part.”
  • DavidSJ 6y ago
    The fractional part of x is what you have left after you subtract the largest integer k ≤ x. Hence the fractional part is always less than 1. Since 0.999... = 1, it is not less than 1, so cannot be the fractional part of any number.
    • freyr 6y ago
      Makes sense, thanks.