I read the book, the End of Error by John Gustafson. He works on a lot of numerical problems right there, providing code and results. He also goes over the hi

I read the book, the End of Error by John Gustafson. He works on a lot of numerical problems right there, providing code and results. He also goes over the history of floats and numerical computation, highlighting how often the best method was never adopted, for reasons as simple as patents or it not being better by enough. Unums are better by enough, and they're being used at LLNL in experiments. It's just a hard ask for people to switch the number system they use, even switching from decimal to binary was a huge slog in the early computer age.