In floating-point arithmetic , the significand is a component of a finite floating-point number containing its significant digits.
Generally speaking, the significand can be thought of as an integer , as a fraction , or as some other fixed-point form by choosing an appropriate exponent offset (that is, an appropriate bias. What's more, a decimal or subnormal binary significand may also contain leading zeros.
See also Arithmetic ,
Biased Exponent ,
Floating-Point Algebra ,
Floating-Point Arithmetic ,
Floating-Point Exponent ,
Floating-Point Normal Number ,
Floating-Point Number ,
Floating-Point Preferred Exponent ,
Floating-Point Quantum ,
Floating-Point Representation ,
IEEE 754-2008 ,
Interval Arithmetic ,
NaN ,
Quiet NaN ,
Signaling NaN ,
Subnormal Number This entry contributed by Christopher Stover
Explore with Wolfram|Alpha References IEEE Computer Society. "IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic: IEEE Std 754-2008 (Revision of IEEE Std 754-1985)." 2008. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=4610935 . Referenced on Wolfram|Alpha Significand Cite this as: Stover, Christopher . "Significand." From MathWorld Eric W. Weisstein . https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Significand.html
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