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minus-squareNonWonderDog [he/him]hexbear9·1 year agoSignificand in double-precision floating-point. link
minus-squareLlituro [he/him, they/them]hexbear5·1 year agothat's like the part that's not the mantissa? link
minus-squareNonWonderDog [he/him]hexbear6·1 year agoSignificand, mantissa, the part after the decimal point. (Or maybe the term “significand” includes the implicit “1.” and so would be 53 bits? I forget.) Anyway, the part that isn’t exponent or sign, not including the implicit 1, is 52 bits. link
Significand in double-precision floating-point.
that's like the part that's not the mantissa?
Significand, mantissa, the part after the decimal point. (Or maybe the term “significand” includes the implicit “1.” and so would be 53 bits? I forget.)
Anyway, the part that isn’t exponent or sign, not including the implicit 1, is 52 bits.