In Defense of 'Mantissa'
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by enz
2 hours ago
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ggm
1 hour ago
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The only thing worse than astronomers arguing about planethood and Pluto. Let's argue semantics about mantissa and significand.

Oh wait, brontosaurus is on line 3, line 4 has Newton shouting at reception about dot notation and Leibniz has gone out to lunch.

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