[PATCH] math: Merge strtod_nam_*.h into math-type-macros-*.h
Paul Eggert
eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Tue May 15 19:33:00 GMT 2018
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.
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