Lexicographical Neighbors of Mantissas
Literary usage of Mantissas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plane Trigonometry and Tables by George Wentworth, David Eugene Smith (1914)
"On account of the great differences between the successive mantissas, interpolation
cannot ... In the remainder of the table only the mantissas are given. ..."
2. Modern Junior Mathematics by Marie Gugle (1920)
"Decimal Parts of Logarithms — mantissas 1. (a) The logarithms of all numbers,
... (b) Tables of logarithms give only the mantissas of the logarithms. ..."
3. Five-place Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables by James Morford Taylor (1905)
"The mantissa is in the same row as the number of minutes, and the characteristic
is at the top or bottom of the column of mantissas. ..."
4. Five-place Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables by George Albert Wentworth, George Anthony Hill (1903)
"Here the two adjacent mantissas of the table, between which the given mantissa
... The difference between the smaller of the two adjacent mantissas, 48756, ..."
5. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry by George Albert Wentworth (1891)
"Here the two adjacent mantissas of the table, between which the given mantissa
... The difference between the smaller of the two adjacent mantissas, 48756, ..."
6. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry and Tables by George Albert Wentworth (1903)
"Here the two adjacent mantissas of the table, between which the given mantissa
... The difference between the smaller of the two adjacent mantissas, 48756, ..."
7. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry by George Albert Wentworth (1891)
"Here the two adjacent mantissas of the table, between which the given mantissa
... The difference between the smaller of the two adjacent mantissas, 48756, ..."
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