SIGNIFICAND
NAME
significand, significandf, significandl -
get mantissa of floating point number
SYNOPSIS
#include <math.h>
I double significand(double x );
I float significandf(float x );
I long double significandl(long double x );
Link with -lm.
DESCRIPTION
The
R 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.
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