# How to get the significand and the exponent of a floating point number?

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**Created:** [October 14, 2019, 1:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-the-significand-and-the-exponent-of-a-floating-point-number/29900 "2019-10-14T13:38:05Z")\
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Use `exponent` and `significand` to get exponent and mantissa of a float. There is also `bitstring` which will return the binary representation as a string.

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