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  • NonWonderDog [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    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.