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  31 <a name="numeric_conversion.history_and_acknowledgments.h0"></a>
  32       <span class="phrase"><a name="numeric_conversion.history_and_acknowledgments.pre_formal_review"></a></span><a class="link" href="history_and_acknowledgments.html#numeric_conversion.history_and_acknowledgments.pre_formal_review">Pre-formal
  33       review</a>
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  35 <div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
  36 <li class="listitem">
  37           Kevlin Henney, with help from David Abrahams and Beman Dawes, originally
  38           contributed the previous version of <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">numeric_cast</span><span class="special">&lt;&gt;</span></code> which already presented the idea
  39           of a runtime range check.
  40         </li>
  41 <li class="listitem">
  42           Later, Eric Ford, Kevin Lynch and the author spotted some genericity problems
  43           with that <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">numeric_cast</span><span class="special">&lt;&gt;</span></code> which prevented it from being used
  44           in a generic layer of math functions.
  45         </li>
  46 <li class="listitem">
  47           An improved <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">numeric_cast</span><span class="special">&lt;&gt;</span></code> which properly handled all combinations
  48           of arithmetic types was presented.
  49         </li>
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  51           David Abrahams and Beman Dawes acknowledged the need of an improved version
  52           of <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">numeric_cast</span><span class="special">&lt;&gt;</span></code>
  53           and supported the submission as originally laid out. Daryl Walker and Darin
  54           Adler made some important comments and proposed fixes to the original submission.
  55         </li>
  56 <li class="listitem">
  57           Special thanks go to Bj&#246;rn Karlsoon who helped the author considerably.
  58           Having found the problems with <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">numeric_cast</span><span class="special">&lt;&gt;</span></code> himself, he revised very carefully
  59           the original submission and spot a subtle bug in the range checking implementation.
  60           He also wrote part of this documentation and proof-read and corrected other
  61           parts. And most importantly: the features now presented here in this library
  62           evolved from the original submission as a result of the useful private
  63           communications between Bj&#246;rn and the author.
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  73           Guillaume Melquiond spoted some documentation and code issues, particularly
  74           about rounding conversions.
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  76 <li class="listitem">
  77           The following people contributed an important review of the design, documentation
  78           and c ode: Kevin Lynch, Thorsten Ottosen, Paul Bristow, Daryle Walker,
  79           Jhon Torjo, Eric Ford, Gennadiy Rozental.
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