This interview is pretty interesting, about a new number format that will solve floating point related errors: http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=2913029
see also: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-new-number-format-for-computers-could-nuke-approximation-errors-for-good I wonder about a J implementation of unums... ...it seems Julia (among others) has one https://github.com/REX-Computing/unumjl ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
