Mantissa () may refer to:
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Mantissa (logarithm)
In mathematics, the common logarithm (aka "standard logarithm") is the logarithm with base 10. It is also known as the decadic logarithm, the decimal logarithm and the Briggsian logarithm. The name "Briggsian logarithm" is in honor of the British ...
, the fractional part of the common (base-10) logarithm
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Significand
The significand (also coefficient, sometimes argument, or more ambiguously mantissa, fraction, or characteristic) is the first (left) part of a number in scientific notation or related concepts in floating-point representation, consisting of its s ...
(also commonly called mantissa), the significant digits of a floating-point number or a number in scientific notation
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Mantissa (band)
Mantissa were an Australian hard rock band which formed as Killing Time in 1989. Killing Time included Nina Grant on bass guitar and vocals, Chris Paine on guitar, and Adam Pringle on lead vocals. In February 1991 they issued an extended play, ...
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''Mantissa'' (novel), a 1982 novel by John Fowles
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Mantissa College
Mantissa College is a private educational establishment founded in 1999 with approval from the Malaysia Education ministry.
History
The institute was founded in 1999 as an IT college and is wholly owned by PMI Education Sdn. Bhd (Reg No. 629638V ...
* ''De anima libri mantissa'', sometimes simply referred as ''Mantissa'', treatise attributed to
Alexander of Aphrodisias
Alexander of Aphrodisias (; AD) was a Peripatetic school, Peripatetic philosopher and the most celebrated of the Ancient Greek Commentaries on Aristotle, commentators on the writings of Aristotle. He was a native of Aphrodisias in Caria and liv ...
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