a. It would be useful to compile a list of the cases
where you feel J primitives return results that differ
from what "IEEE support" would provide.  For example:

0. 0%0
1. tolerant comparison
etc.

b. One possible approach for a programming language
to take is, for the arithmetic primitives, just 
return what the hardware produces.  For example,
1234567890 + 2223334440 would be a negative integer
rather than the 64-bit floating point number 3.4579e9.

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