mantissa

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mantissa, mantīsa, of unknown origin (said by Festus to be a loanword from Etruscan, but it may actually be from Celtic, possibly through Etruscan mediation).

noun

  1. (obsolete) A minor addition to a text.
  2. (mathematics) The part of a common logarithm after the decimal point, the fractional part of a logarithm.
  3. (mathematics, computing) The significand; that part of a floating-point number or number in scientific notation that contains its significant digits.

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