MANTISSA

'Mantissa' can mean:

★ (According to the Oxford English Dictionary) "an addition of comparatively small importance, esp. to a text or discourse; a supplement"

★ The fractional part (i.e. the part after the separator) of a common logarithm.

★ The "''fraction part''" (part after the separator) of the coefficient of floating-point numbers and normalized numbers in scientific notation. ''Also, see significand''.

★ The original (now archaic), non-mathematical meaning of ''mantissa'' is a "minor addition" or "supplement", e.g. to a text. It also sometimes meant "'''a worthless addition'''".
Mantissa can also refer to:

★ ''Mantissa'' is also a novel by John Fowles.

★ '' 'Mantissa' '' is the name of a loose collection of ships which initially formed the base of the ''Yuhl/Goehl'' species/civilization in the Orphans of Earth Trilogy by Shawn Williams and Shane Dix.

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