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programming A number representation consisting of a
"base") . The number represented is M*R^E where R is the
radix - usually ten but sometimes 2.
Many different representations are used for the mantissa and
representation which is used by many hardware floating-point
systems.
number into
canonical form where any number other than zero
has a mantissa whose first digit is non-zero.
(1995-03-21)