Some median Python NaNsense
Some median Python NaNsense
Posted Jan 6, 2020 17:45 UTC (Mon) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)In reply to: Some median Python NaNsense by Paf
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As I understand it, "significand" is the preferred terminology of IEEE 754. Mantissa is used for logarithms. Because logarithms treat the part after the decimal differently from floating point numbers, they wanted to use a different term.