From: Taylor R Campbell Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:55:43 +0000 (+0000) Subject: We show the significand of a number, not the mantissa. X-Git-Tag: release-9.2.0~340^2 X-Git-Url: https://birchwood-abbey.net/git?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a286dc3cc873773c3f46a63ddf22c2c88a14f0c1;p=mit-scheme.git We show the significand of a number, not the mantissa. --- diff --git a/doc/ref-manual/numbers.texi b/doc/ref-manual/numbers.texi index 308bd48ab..865f86784 100644 --- a/doc/ref-manual/numbers.texi +++ b/doc/ref-manual/numbers.texi @@ -962,10 +962,10 @@ One of the symbols: @code{normal}, @code{scientific}, or @code{engineering}. This specifies the format in which the number will be printed.@* @code{scientific} specifies that the number will be printed using scientific notation: @code{@var{x}.@var{xxx}e@var{yyy}}. In other -words, the number is printed as a mantissa between zero inclusive and +words, the number is printed as a significand between zero inclusive and ten exclusive, and an exponent. @code{engineering} is like @code{scientific}, except that the exponent is always a power of three, -and the mantissa is constrained to be between zero inclusive and 1000 +and the significand is constrained to be between zero inclusive and 1000 exclusive. If @code{normal} is specified, the number will be printed in positional notation if it is ``small enough'', otherwise it is printed in scientific notation. A number is ``small enough'' when the number of