What's the difference between mantissa and significand?

Mantissa


Definition:

  • (n.) The decimal part of a logarithm, as distinguished from the integral part, or characteristic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Manufacturer is VEB Mantissa Dresden, sales department is Staatliches Versorgungskontor für Pharmazie und Medizintechnik.

Significand


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A freeze-etch study of nuclear pores performed on human lymphocytes, epidermal and corneal cells, on hamster fibroblasts, on rat and hamster sarcoma cells and cells from a human malignant melanoma, revealed that the frequency of pores as a part of very important biological cellular structures increases in proliferating cells, and that there is a statistically significand difference between normal and tumor cells.
  • (2) Thus, HVA was significandly reduced in the patients with epilepsy compared with the controls.

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