What would be the recommended way of getting the base 10 mantissa and exponent of a floating point number? Is there a package that does this? Or should I just reparse from printed representation, as in using Printf function get_mantissa_exponent(x) str = @sprintf "%.15e" x # specialize 15 …

Get base10 mantissa and exponent of real (eg Float64)

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