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Re: Curious Omission In New-Style Formats

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Subject Re: Curious Omission In New-Style Formats
Date Thu, 14 Jul 2016 07:34:42 -0400
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On Thu, 14 Jul 2016 17:47:17 +1000, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> declaimed the following:

>Er, then what's a mantissa if it's not what people call a float's mantissa?
>
	In my old math classes: it was the fractional part of a base-10
logarithm, while the integral part ("characteristic") essentially defined
the power-of-10 of the number.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_logarithm#Uses
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