From: DrDiettrich1@netscape.net   
      
   A friend just pointed me to the Universal Number formats, which may have   
   been subject to the IEEE 754 thread. Before I tweet my own thoughts   
   here, I'd like to hear more about the practice of Unum numbers. From   
   theory the Unum formats try to increase the number precision (around   
   1.0) and range (towards 0 and Inf). What are these attempts worth in   
   real life?   
      
   DoDi   
      
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