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Manual Reference Pages  - SIGNIFICAND (3)

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NAME

significand, significandf, significandl - get mantissa of floating-point number

CONTENTS

Synopsis
Description
Conforming To
Colophon

SYNOPSIS

#include <math.h>

double significand(double x);
float significandf(float x);
long double significandl(long double x);

Link with -lm.

Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

significand(), significandf(), significandl():

_SVID_SOURCE || _BSD_SOURCE

DESCRIPTION

The significand() function returns the mantissa of x scaled to the range [1,2). It is equivalent to

scalb(x, (double) -ilogb(x))

This function exists mainly for use in certain standardized tests for IEEE 754 conformance.

CONFORMING TO

These functions are nonstandard; the double version is available on a number of other systems.

SEE ALSO

ilogb(3), scalb(3)

COLOPHON

This page is part of release 3.44 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

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GNU

SIGNIFICAND (3)

2009-02-04

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