I'd always just assumed that Arithmetic was chosen so that SignedArithmetic wouldn't clash with the old SignedNumber. If that's not an issue, definitely agree that Number is the superior name.<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 08:30 T.J. Usiyan via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">Oh, I misread the arrows in that diagram and this makes much more sense now.<div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">Thanks.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 9:14 AM, Stephen Canon <span dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:scanon@apple.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">scanon@apple.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">The bitwise stuff isn't on ArithMETic | ARITHmetic | Number | whatever.</div><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="m_168233638687031761h5 gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">On Jan 27, 2017, at 9:13 AM, T.J. Usiyan via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_168233638687031761m_-960103653602236972Apple-interchange-newline gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">Regarding `Number` or `Numeric`: Does everything in Arithmetic apply to complex numbers and do we want it to? The bitwise stuff is where I think that there might be a mismatch.<div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">
on Sun Jan 15 2017, Stephen Canon <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
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> “Arithmetic” at present is not a mathematically-precise concept, and<br class="gmail_msg">
> it may be a mistake to make it be one[1]; it’s a<br class="gmail_msg">
> mathematically-slightly-fuzzy “number” protocol.<br class="gmail_msg">
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</span>In that case, should we consider renaming it to “Numeric” or even<br class="gmail_msg">
“Number?” That would at least remove the question about how to<br class="gmail_msg">
pronounce it.<br class="gmail_msg">
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