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Re: [PATCH] math: Merge strtod_nam_*.h into math-type-macros-*.h
On 05/15/2018 11:22 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
Okay. I thought that macro had a strange name, but it was probably
okay based on context, which is now gone.
Whatever context it had was incorrect, because floating point numbers do
not have mantissas. They have significands. Properly speaking, a
mantissa is the fractional part of a logarithm, and floating-point
numbers do not use mantissas at all.