On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Roger Hui wrote:
> In J, a numeric constant begins with _ or 0-9, 
> continues with _  or 0-9 or . or a-z or A-Z, and ends
> with a character which is not one of the preceding
> or at the end of the string.  This is modeled in the ;: 
> dictionary page. 
> http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/d332.htm
> The model also handles numeric vector constants.
> 
> The word formation rules specify as "number" 
> strings that are currently not interpreted as numbers.  
> For example 2i3j4k5 (future quaternion?)

instead of evaluating to an extended integer or error, it interprets
it as valid number.
  1bx
33
  1b1x
34

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