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The Word "Significand"
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Quadibloc
Apr 26, 2007, 11:15:14 PM4/26/07
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Just dug up my copy of Sterbenz (Floating-Point Arithmetic) and was
looking through the start of it, and got a pleasant surprise.
looking through the start of it, and got a pleasant surprise.
The word "significand", which I thought might have been invented
during the IEEE 754 standardization process, is instead cited in that
book as having been used by Forsythe and Moler in _Computer Solution
of Linear Algebraic Systems_ from 1967.
John Savard
Quadibloc
Apr 27, 2007, 7:20:12 AM4/27/07
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A web search, though, shows that "What Every Computer Scientist Should
Know about Floating-Point" mentions this also, though I didn't notice
it at the time.
John Savard
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