Mantissa
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Mantissa can mean:
- (According to the Oxford English Dictionary) "an addition of comparatively small importance, esp. to a text or discourse; a supplement"
- The fractional part (i.e. the part after the separator) of a common logarithm.
- The "fraction part" (part after the separator) of the coefficient of floating-point numbers and normalized numbers in scientific notation. Also, see significand.
Mantissa can also refer to:
- Mantissa is also a novel by John Fowles.
- Mantissa is the name of a loose collection of ships which initially formed the base of the Yuhl/Goehl species/civilization in the Orphans of Earth Trilogy by Shawn Williams and Shane Dix.
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