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"form": "significands",
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"pos": "noun",
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"examples": [
{
"text": "Coordinate term: exponent"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The part of a floating-point number that contains its significant digits."
],
"id": "en-significand-en-noun-Ioa2J6NL",
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"floating-point number",
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"synonyms": [
{
"word": "mantissa"
},
{
"word": "coefficient"
},
{
"word": "argument"
},
{
"word": "fraction"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "part of floating-point number",
"word": "signifikantti"
}
]
}
],
"word": "significand"
}
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{
"text": "Coordinate term: exponent"
}
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],
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},
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"word": "coefficient"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "part of floating-point number",
"word": "signifikantti"
}
],
"word": "significand"
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