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:I did some looking; there are complex built-in types in the C99 standard, with defined implicit casts up and down to the other numeric primitives. --[[User:IanOsgood|IanOsgood]] 10:36, 11 March 2008 (MDT)
::How could an implicit cast from a complex type to a floating point or integer type result in a valid value? Simple integers and floats cannot represent both the real and imaginary parts of the complex number.--[[User:Waldorf|Waldorf]] 17:36, 11 March 2008 (MDT)
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