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Re: Curious Omission In New-Style Formats

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On 2016-07-14 01:45, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro
> <lawrencedo99@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"? :-)

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  Re: Curious Omission In New-Style Formats Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-07-10 01:21 -0600
    Re: Curious Omission In New-Style Formats Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-10 17:34 -0700
      Re: Curious Omission In New-Style Formats Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-07-11 09:04 -0600
        Re: Curious Omission In New-Style Formats Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-12 02:28 +1000
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              Re: Curious Omission In New-Style Formats Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-07-11 19:16 -0600
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            Re: Curious Omission In New-Style Formats Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-12 13:38 +1000
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                Re: Curious Omission In New-Style Formats Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-13 00:05 -0700
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