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Exponent vs Significand - What's the difference?

exponent | significand | see also |

Exponent is a see also of significand.


As nouns the difference between exponent and significand

is that exponent is one who expounds, represents or advocates while significand is that part of a floating-point number that contains its significant digits.

exponent

English

(wikipedia exponent)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who expounds, represents or advocates
  • (mathematics) The power to which a number, symbol or expression is to be raised. For example, the 3 in x^3.
  • (mathematics) The result of a logarithm, between a base and a power. For example the 2 in \log_b(p)=2.
  • (linguistics) A manifestation of a morphosyntactic property.

    • Derived terms

    * exponent of inseparability

    significand

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • that part of a floating-point number that contains its significant digits.

    • Synonyms

    * mantissa * coefficient

    See also

    * exponent