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Re: [fortran,patch] fix typos
- From: Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu>
- To: Tobias Burnus <burnus at net-b dot de>
- Cc: "'fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org'" <fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org>, gcc-patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:14:28 -0700
- Subject: Re: [fortran,patch] fix typos
- References: <45333C08.7020005@net-b.de> <20061016174002.GB5119@aon.at> <4533D75A.9050302@net-b.de>
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 09:02:50PM +0200, Tobias Burnus wrote:
>
> > where significand could also sometimes mean mantissa, i think
> >
> I really should check more dictionaries :-(
> The good old Oxford English Dictionary does not contain "significand"
> and the Marriam-Webster does neither.
>
> But Oxford's "A Dictionary of Computing" indeed contains:
> "In the context of computing, a more common name for the mantissa is the
> 'significand'."
>
See a working draft of the IEEE 754 standard.
significand: A component of an unencoded binary or decimal
floating-point number containing its significant digits. The
significand may be thought of as an integer, a fraction, or
some other fixed-point form, by choosing an appropriate bias.
--
Steve