significand, significandf, significandl - get mantissa of floating-point number
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Attributes
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
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│ Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
│ significand(), significandf(), significandl() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
Description
These functions return the mantissa of x scaled to the range [1, FLT_RADIX). They are equivalent to
scalb(x, (double) -ilogb(x))
This function exists mainly for use in certain standardized tests for IEEE 754 conformance.
History
significand()
BSD.
Library
Math library (libm, -lm)
Name
significand, significandf, significandl - get mantissa of floating-point number
See Also
ilogb(3), scalb(3) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 significand(3)
Standards
None.
significand()
BSD.
Synopsis
#include<math.h>doublesignificand(doublex);floatsignificandf(floatx);longdoublesignificandl(longdoublex); Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)): significand(), significandf(), significandl(): /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
