exponent

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(Or "characteristic") The part of a floating-point number specifying the power of ten by which the mantissa should be multiplied. In the common notation, e.g. 3.1E8, the exponent is 8.

Last updated: 1995-02-27

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Exploratory Data Analysis ♦ exponent ♦ exponential ♦ exponential-time

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