<div dir="ltr">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><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
on Sun Jan 15 2017, Stephen Canon <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Responding to the thread in general here, not so much any specific email:<br>
><br>
> “Arithmetic” at present is not a mathematically-precise concept, and<br>
> it may be a mistake to make it be one[1]; it’s a<br>
> mathematically-slightly-fuzzy “number” protocol.<br>
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</span>In that case, should we consider renaming it to “Numeric” or even<br>
“Number?” That would at least remove the question about how to<br>
pronounce it.<br>
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--<br>
-Dave<br>
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