<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">The bitwise stuff isn't on ArithMETic | ARITHmetic | Number | whatever.</div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 27, 2017, at 9:13 AM, T.J. Usiyan via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">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=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br class="">
on Sun Jan 15 2017, Stephen Canon <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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> Responding to the thread in general here, not so much any specific email:<br class="">
><br class="">
> “Arithmetic” at present is not a mathematically-precise concept, and<br class="">
> it may be a mistake to make it be one[1]; it’s a<br class="">
> mathematically-slightly-fuzzy “number” protocol.<br class="">
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</span>In that case, should we consider renaming it to “Numeric” or even<br class="">
“Number?” That would at least remove the question about how to<br class="">
pronounce it.<br class="">
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--<br class="">
-Dave<br class="">
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