From: Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com   
      
   Lawrence D’Oliveiro  writes:   
   > On Mon, 5 Jan 2026 07:37:07 -0500, James Kuyper wrote:   
   >> On 2026-01-05 05:32, David Brown wrote:   
   >> ...   
   >>> Does being a "real type" imply that "time_t" is always an alias for   
   >>> a standard integer type or standard floating point type?   
   >>   
   >> No, real types include integer types, which in turn includes the   
   >> signed and unsigned integer types (6.2.5p22). The signed integer   
   >> types include the extended signed integer types (6.2.5p6), and the   
   >> unsigned integer types include the extended unsigned integer types   
   >> (6.2.5p8).   
   >   
   > They could have said “numeric types” to avoid confusion with the   
   > mathematical usage ...   
      
   No, complex types are numeric types (or arithmetic types in C terms).   
      
   And in mathematical terms, both integer types and real floating types   
   represent subsets of the mathematical real numbers (plus nans and   
   infinities for the real floating types).   
      
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