Metric numbers for communication of numerical data in computational cybernetics

This paper proposes the standard specification of metric numbers and is intended to discuss the topic. The numbers combined with metric prefixes like the 2k for the year, or 2k2 for resistors inscription are popularly used. However, there exists no standard to guide the use of such numbers, and typical precision is limited to few digits, as in the E24 series used for electronic parts. Computational methods rely heavily on the numerical data, as opposed to the rest of computer science or artificial intelligence, which are often built around textual data. To communicate numerical data, either with human, or between programs, several numbers representations are available. In this paper we want to show, that proposed metric numbers are a useful addition to the computational cybernetics paradigm. We will discuss and try to resolve problems related to the implementation of metric numbers system. Among these issues, we intend to standardize the suffix notation, as is used in the 2k2 resistor, and the plus/minus notation for sparse numbers, like in the 2M+1. We will also discuss and provide the reference implementation in the end.