Curious Omission In New-Style Formats

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thursday 14 July 2016 15:18, Ian Kelly wrote:

> Side note, neither do floating point numbers, really; what is often
> called the mantissa is more properly known as the significand. But
> integers don't have that either.


Er, then what's a mantissa if it's not what people call a float's mantissa?

What makes you say it is "more properly" known as the significand?

I'm not necessarily disputing what you say, I'm wondering what is your 
justification for it.


-- 
Steve