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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 Björn Karlsoon who helped the author considerably. 58 Having found the problems with <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">numeric_cast</span><span class="special"><></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 Björn and the author. 64 </li> 65</ul></div> 66<h4> 67<a name="numeric_conversion.history_and_acknowledgments.h1"></a> 68 <span class="phrase"><a name="numeric_conversion.history_and_acknowledgments.post_formal_review"></a></span><a class="link" href="history_and_acknowledgments.html#numeric_conversion.history_and_acknowledgments.post_formal_review">Post-formal 69 review</a> 70 </h4> 71<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "> 72<li class="listitem"> 73 Guillaume Melquiond spoted some documentation and code issues, particularly 74 about rounding conversions. 75 </li> 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. 80 </li> 81</ul></div> 82</div> 83<table xmlns:rev="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost/tools/doc/revision" width="100%"><tr> 84<td align="left"></td> 85<td align="right"><div class="copyright-footer">Copyright © 2004-2007 Fernando 86 Luis Cacciola Carballal<p> 87 Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. 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