vocabulary note to self

[plorkwort]

mantissa==fractional part of logarithm
mantilla==lace thing that señoritas wear on their heads

Comments

[mmcirvin]

And I always thought the mantissa was what the IEEE now calls a significand, but apparently the mantissa is really the logarithm of that.

[doctroid]

manticore==beast with a lion's body, the face of a man , and the tail of a scorpion

[urbeatle]

...and the Amazing Man-Girl is a man with the super ability of transforming into a six-year old girl.

[tau_iota_mu_c]

Did you accidentally put a mantissa on your head? Someone actually complemented me on my choice of improper integral today. I did almost lose it in the strong wind though.

[pentomino]

We need to do this thread over in the form of a reddit pun thread.

>>A mantissa is lace thing that señoritas wear on their heads.
>No, that's a mantilla. A mantissa is a carnivorous insect.
No, that's a mantis. Mantissa is the layer of Earth' surface between the crust and the core.