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[basic.extended.fp] Replaced usage of 'mantissa' with 'significand'
according to SO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2008
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\pnum
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\begin{note}
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A summary of the parameters for each type is given in \tref{basic.extended.fp}.
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The precision $p$ includes the implicit 1 bit at the beginning of the mantissa,
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so the storage used for the mantissa is $p-1$ bits.
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The precision $p$ includes the implicit 1 bit at the beginning of the significand,
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so the storage used for the significand is $p-1$ bits.
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ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559 does not assign a name for a type
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having the parameters specified for \tcode{std::bfloat16_t}.
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\end{note}

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