Mantissa () may refer to:
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Mantissa (logarithm)
In mathematics, the common logarithm is the logarithm with base 10. It is also known as the decadic logarithm and as the decimal logarithm, named after its base, or Briggsian logarithm, after Henry Briggs, an English mathematician who pioneered i ...
, the fractional part of the common (base-10) logarithm
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Significand
The significand (also mantissa or coefficient, sometimes also argument, or ambiguously fraction or characteristic) is part of a number in scientific notation or in floating-point representation, consisting of its significant digits. Depending on ...
(also commonly called mantissa), the significant digits of a floating-point number or a number in scientific notation
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Mantissa (band)
Mantissa were an Australian hard rock band which formed as Killing Time in 1989. Killing Time included Nina Grant on bass guitar and vocals, Chris Paine on guitar, and Adam Pringle on lead vocals. In February 1991 they issued an extended play ...
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''Mantissa'' (novel), a 1982 novel by John Fowles
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Mantissa College
Mantissa College is a private educational establishment founded in 1999 with approval from the Malaysia Education ministry.
History
The institute was founded in 1999 as an IT college and is wholly owned by PMI Education Sdn. Bhd (Reg No. 629638V ...
* ''De anima libri mantissa'', sometimes simply referred as ''Mantissa'', treatise attributed to
Alexander of Aphrodisias
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