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- Kevlin Henney, with help from David Abrahams and Beman Dawes, originally
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- Later, Eric Ford, Kevin Lynch and the author spotted some genericity problems
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- in a generic layer of math functions.
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- An improved <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">numeric_cast</span><span class="special"><></span></code> which properly handled all combinations
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- David Abrahams and Beman Dawes acknowledged the need of an improved version
- of <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">numeric_cast</span><span class="special"><></span></code>
- and supported the submission as originally laid out. Daryl Walker and Darin
- Adler made some important comments and proposed fixes to the original submission.
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- Special thanks go to Björn Karlsoon who helped the author considerably.
- Having found the problems with <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">numeric_cast</span><span class="special"><></span></code> himself, he revised very carefully
- the original submission and spot a subtle bug in the range checking implementation.
- He also wrote part of this documentation and proof-read and corrected other
- parts. And most importantly: the features now presented here in this library
- evolved from the original submission as a result of the useful private
- communications between Björn and the author.
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- Guillaume Melquiond spoted some documentation and code issues, particularly
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- The following people contributed an important review of the design, documentation
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- Jhon Torjo, Eric Ford, Gennadiy Rozental.
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