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From: Bob Duff <bobduff@theworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Fixed-point question
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 15:20:40 -0400
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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> writes:

>...I'm not sure why the type conversion for C1 results in using
> the universal-real operator.

Because of RM-8.6(29).  Actually, it's the root_real operator;
universal_real has no operators.  Without the preference rule
of 8.6(29), it would be ambiguous.  As you said, it's calculating
an exact rational number (at compile time), and converting that.

- Bob