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Mantissa is the name of a loose collection of ships which initially formed the base of the Yuhl/Goehl species/civilization in the Orphans of Earth Trilogy by Shawn Williams and Shane Dix.

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	Mantissa is also a novel by John Fowles.
	Mantissa is the name of a loose collection of ships which initially formed the base of the Yuhl/Goehl species/civilization in the Orphans of Earth Trilogy by Shawn Williams and Shane Dix.
	Mantissa is also the name of an Australian band of the early nineties (formerly known as Killing Time).

Floating point computing device for simplifying procedures accompanying addition or subtraction by detecting whether ... (9779 words)
	The mantissa computing section is capable of executing the postprocessing of a mantissa and the rounding operation at the same time, thereby omitting the postprocessing of a mantissa.
	The four bits of the zeroth digit of the mantissa register 410 are connected to the input terminals of a NOR gate 710.
	This function is used in the event of addition or subtraction of the mantissa M. A second function is to add the rounding constant indicated by the signal on the signal line 106-3 to the content of the first mantissa register 410.

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