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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\"
.\" heavily based on glibc infopages, copyright Free Software Foundation
.\"
-.TH significand 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH significand 3 2024-03-12 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
.SH NAME
significand, significandf, significandl \-
get mantissa of floating-point number
@@ -15,17 +15,17 @@ Math library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <math.h>
-.PP
+.P
.BI "double significand(double " x );
.BI "float significandf(float " x );
.BI "long double significandl(long double " x );
.fi
-.PP
+.P
.RS -4
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
.RE
-.PP
+.P
.BR significand (),
.BR significandf (),
.BR significandl ():
@@ -36,15 +36,16 @@ Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
.SH DESCRIPTION
These functions return the mantissa of
.I x
-scaled to the range [1,2).
+scaled to the range
+.RB [ 1 ,\~ FLT_RADIX ).
They are equivalent to
-.PP
+.P
.in +4n
.EX
scalb(x, (double) \-ilogb(x))
.EE
.in
-.PP
+.P
This function exists mainly for use in certain standardized tests
for IEEE 754 conformance.
.SH ATTRIBUTES
@@ -63,7 +64,6 @@ T{
.BR significandl ()
T} Thread safety MT-Safe
.TE
-.sp 1
.SH STANDARDS
None.
.TP