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mantissas

mantissas is the plural of mantissa.

Meaning of mantissa

Noun

mantissa (plural mantissas or mantissae)

  1. (obsolete) A minor addition to a text.
  2. The part of a common logarithm after the decimal point, the fractional part of a logarithm.
  3. The significand; that part of a floating-point number or number in scientific notation that contains its significant digits.
    Synonyms:
    significand

Questions about mantissas

What is mantissas the plural of?
Mantissas is the plural of mantissa.

Words near mantissas in the dictionary

  1. mantislike
  2. mantispid
  3. mantispids
  4. mantissa
  5. mantissae
  6. mantissas
  7. mantistic
  8. mantit
  9. mantits
  10. Mantjiltjara
  11. mantle

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