mantissa

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Int64 and UInt64 types are not available yet because JavaScript 64-bit (8 bytes) float point number have only 52-bit mantissa which means that it is not possible to work with 64-bit whole numbers properly.

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  1. noun The decimal part of a logarithm. In the logarithm 2.95424, the mantissa is 0.95424.

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  • Int64 and UInt64 types are not available yet because JavaScript 64-bit (8 bytes) float point number have only 52-bit mantissa which means that it is not possible to work with 64-bit whole numbers properly. —  The Code Project Latest Articles
  • · Exponents are entered and displayed in the same base as the mantissa. —  Softpedia - Windows - All
  • In the right hand side, symbols mantissa). —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • -- The peripatetic Alexander of Aphrodisias who fought fatalism in his [Greek: Peri heimarmenês], at the beginning of the third century, and who violently attacked the charlatanism and cupidity of the astrologers in another book (_De anima mantissa_, p. 180, 14, Bruns), formulated the contradiction in the popular beliefs of his time (_ibid. _, p. 182, 18): —  The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
  • Programming & Design what is mantissa and exponent in binary representation of real numbers? how would i get an income source without spending any cost for tutorials or any materials? —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
 

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  1. Latin, makeweight, perhaps of Etruscan origin.

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  1. from Latin mantissa, mantisa, an addition, a makeweight; of Etruscan origin.
 

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