Curious Omission In New-Style Formats

[MRAB]

On 2016-07-14 01:45, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro
> <lawrencedo99 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at 6:22:31 PM UTC+12, Ian wrote:
>>
>>> ... don't call it "precision".
>>
>> How about “mantissa length”, then. That sufficiently neutral for you?
>
> That makes even less sense for integers.
>
Perhaps "precision or whatever"? :-)