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Significand is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Significand in a sentence

Significand meaning

The part of a floating-point number that contains its significant digits.

Using Significand

  • The main meaning on this page is: The part of a floating-point number that contains its significant digits.
  • In the example corpus, significand often appears in combinations such as: the significand, significand is, significand and.

Context around Significand

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 6 middle, 2 end
  • Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

ignoring 1×

Often after:

taking 1× field 1× end 1× bit 1× overflows 1×

Sentence patterns with Significand

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

denotes a significand bit 1× denotes the significand and e 1× digits the significand and scaled 1× explicitly ignoring significand taking the 1× in the significand 1× in the significand is shifted 1× make the significand end in 1× of the significand field determined 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

explicitly ignoring significand 1× here s denotes 1× in practice the 1× in the case 1× let s see 1× rounding modes rounding 1×

Common sentence endings:

a decimal fraction 1× a significand bit 1× as shown below 1× denotes the exponent 1× digit is chosen 1× in the significand 1×

Words around Significand

Just before it in the word index:

significances 3 significance 1.856 signifi 2 signicant 2 signiant 2 signets 2

Just after it in the word index:

significant 16.699 significantly 5.370 signification 13 significative 5 signified 105 signifier 36

Similar in corpus frequency:

aadi 15 aakash 15 aayush 15 abcs 15 aberdonian 15 abhi 15

Corpus analysis for Significand

  • In this selection, "significand" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, ignoring, taking, field and end stand out and add context to how "significand" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include denotes a significand bit and denotes the significand and e. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "significand" sits close to words such as aadi, aakash and aayush, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with significand

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Here, s denotes the significand and e denotes the exponent. (10 words)

The significand is a binary fraction that doesn't necessarily perfectly match a decimal fraction. (15 words)

In practice, the most significant bit of the significand field determined whether a NaN is signaling or quiet. (18 words)

Longer example sentences

Let's see what this format looks like by showing how such a number would be stored in 8 bytes of memory: where "S" denotes the sign bit, "x" denotes an exponent bit, and "m" denotes a significand bit. (39 words)

A number is, in general, represented approximately to a fixed number of significant digits (the significand ) and scaled using an exponent in some fixed base; the base for the scaling is normally two, ten, or sixteen. (36 words)

Rounding modes Rounding is used when the exact result of a floating-point operation (or a conversion to floating-point format) would need more digits than there are digits in the significand. (32 words)

Example sentences (11)

A number is, in general, represented approximately to a fixed number of significant digits (the significand ) and scaled using an exponent in some fixed base; the base for the scaling is normally two, ten, or sixteen.

Explicitly, ignoring significand, taking the reciprocal is just taking the additive inverse of the (unbiased) exponent, since the exponent of the reciprocal is the negative of the original exponent.

Here, s denotes the significand and e denotes the exponent.

In practice, the most significant bit of the significand field determined whether a NaN is signaling or quiet.

In the case of a tie, the value that would make the significand end in an even digit is chosen.

Let's see what this format looks like by showing how such a number would be stored in 8 bytes of memory: where "S" denotes the sign bit, "x" denotes an exponent bit, and "m" denotes a significand bit.

Rounding modes Rounding is used when the exact result of a floating-point operation (or a conversion to floating-point format) would need more digits than there are digits in the significand.

The decimal separator in the significand is shifted x places to the left (or right) and x is added to (or subtracted from) the exponent, as shown below.

The significand is a binary fraction that doesn't necessarily perfectly match a decimal fraction.

The way in which the significand (including its sign) and exponent are stored in a computer is implementation-dependent.

This holds even for the last step from a given exponent, where the significand overflows into the exponent: with the implicit 1, the number after 1.11.

Common combinations with significand

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "significand" in a sentence?
An example: "A number is, in general, represented approximately to a fixed number of significant digits (the significand ) and scaled using an exponent in some fixed base; the base for the scaling is normally two, ten, or sixteen." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "significand" from authentic English texts.
What does "significand" mean?
Significand means: The part of a floating-point number that contains its significant digits.
How many example sentences with "significand" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "significand", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.