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Complete Definition of "mantissa"

English

Etymology
From Classical Latin #Latin|mantissa, of unknown origin (said by w:Sextus Pompeius Festus|Festus to be a loanword from Etruscan).

Noun
en-noun|mantissae

  1. obsolete A minor addition to a text.
  2. mathematics The part of a common logarithm after the decimal point.
  3. (mathematics and computing) The significand; that part of a floating-point number that contains its significant digits.

Category:Etruscan derivations

io:mantissa
pl:mantissa
ru:mantissa
vi:mantissa

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