[fortran,patch] fix typos

[Steve Kargl]

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