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What is it useful for?

For dealing with really large (and really small) numbers where overflow is a problem. Not useful for balancing your checkbook.

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2009/5/the-higher-arithmetic/7

"level-index arithmetic" is probably the first search string to use; sadly, lots of the papers are published only behind paywalls.

htom (talk) 22:35, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]