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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="./metafunctions-concepts.html#id1517">Numeric Metafunction</a></h1>
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<h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#description" name="description">Description</a></h3>
<p>A <a class="reference internal" href="./numeric-metafunction.html">Numeric Metafunction</a> is a <a class="reference internal" href="./tag-dispatched-metafunction.html">Tag Dispatched Metafunction</a> that provides
a built-in infrastructure for easy implementation of mixed-type operations.</p>
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<h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#expression-requirements" name="expression-requirements">Expression requirements</a></h3>
<p>In the following table and subsequent specifications, <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">op</span></tt> is a placeholder token for the actual
<a class="reference internal" href="./numeric-metafunction.html">Numeric Metafunction</a>'s name, and <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">x</span></tt>, <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">y</span></tt> and <em>x</em><sub>1</sub>,<em>x</em><sub>2</sub>,... <em>x</em><sub>n</sub> are
arbitrary numeric types.</p>
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<tr><td><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">op_tag&lt;x&gt;::type</span></tt></td>
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<td>Amortized constant time.</td>
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op_impl&lt;
op_tag&lt;x&gt;::type
, op_tag&lt;y&gt;::type
&gt;::<a href="./apply.html" class="identifier">apply</a>&lt;x,y&gt;::type
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<td>Any type</td>
<td>Unspecified.</td>
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<tr><td><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">op&lt;</span></tt><em>x</em><sub>1</sub>,<em>x</em><sub>2</sub>,... <em>x</em><sub>n</sub><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">&gt;::type</span></tt></td>
<td>Any type</td>
<td>Unspecified.</td>
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<h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#expression-semantics" name="expression-semantics">Expression semantics</a></h3>
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typedef op_tag&lt;x&gt;::type tag;
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Semantics:</th><td class="field-body"><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">tag</span></tt> is a tag type for <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">x</span></tt> for <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">op</span></tt>.
<tt class="literal"><span class="pre">tag::value</span></tt> is <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">x</span></tt>'s <em>conversion rank</em>.</td>
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typedef op_impl&lt;
op_tag&lt;x&gt;::type
, op_tag&lt;y&gt;::type
&gt;::<a href="./apply.html" class="identifier">apply</a>&lt;x,y&gt;::type r;
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Semantics:</th><td class="field-body"><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">r</span></tt> is the result of <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">op</span></tt> application on arguments <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">x</span></tt>
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typedef op&lt;<em>x</em><sub>1</sub>,<em>x</em><sub>2</sub>,... <em>x</em><sub>n</sub>&gt;::type r;
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Semantics:</th><td class="field-body"><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">r</span></tt> is the result of <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">op</span></tt> application on arguments <em>x</em><sub>1</sub>,<em>x</em><sub>2</sub>,... <em>x</em><sub>n</sub>.</td>
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<h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#example" name="example">Example</a></h3>
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struct complex_tag : <a href="./int.html" class="identifier">int_</a>&lt;10&gt; {};
template&lt; typename Re, typename Im &gt; struct complex
{
typedef complex_tag tag;
typedef complex type;
typedef Re real;
typedef Im imag;
};
template&lt; typename C &gt; struct real : C::real {};
template&lt; typename C &gt; struct imag : C::imag {};
namespace boost { namespace mpl {
template&lt;&gt;
struct plus_impl&lt; complex_tag,complex_tag &gt;
{
template&lt; typename N1, typename N2 &gt; struct <a href="./apply.html" class="identifier">apply</a>
: complex&lt;
<a href="./plus.html" class="identifier">plus</a>&lt; typename N1::real, typename N2::real &gt;
, <a href="./plus.html" class="identifier">plus</a>&lt; typename N1::imag, typename N2::imag &gt;
&gt;
{
};
};
}}
typedef complex&lt; <a href="./int.html" class="identifier">int_</a>&lt;5&gt;, <a href="./int.html" class="identifier">int_</a>&lt;-1&gt; &gt; c1;
typedef complex&lt; <a href="./int.html" class="identifier">int_</a>&lt;-5&gt;, <a href="./int.html" class="identifier">int_</a>&lt;1&gt; &gt; c2;
typedef <a href="./plus.html" class="identifier">plus</a>&lt;c1,c2&gt; r1;
<a href="./assert-relation.html" class="identifier">BOOST_MPL_ASSERT_RELATION</a>( real&lt;r1&gt;::value, ==, 0 );
<a href="./assert-relation.html" class="identifier">BOOST_MPL_ASSERT_RELATION</a>( imag&lt;r1&gt;::value, ==, 0 );
typedef <a href="./plus.html" class="identifier">plus</a>&lt;c1,c1&gt; r2;
<a href="./assert-relation.html" class="identifier">BOOST_MPL_ASSERT_RELATION</a>( real&lt;r2&gt;::value, ==, 10 );
<a href="./assert-relation.html" class="identifier">BOOST_MPL_ASSERT_RELATION</a>( imag&lt;r2&gt;::value, ==, -2 );
typedef <a href="./plus.html" class="identifier">plus</a>&lt;c2,c2&gt; r3;
<a href="./assert-relation.html" class="identifier">BOOST_MPL_ASSERT_RELATION</a>( real&lt;r3&gt;::value, ==, -10 );
<a href="./assert-relation.html" class="identifier">BOOST_MPL_ASSERT_RELATION</a>( imag&lt;r3&gt;::value, ==, 2 );
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<h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#see-also" name="see-also">See also</a></h3>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="./tag-dispatched-metafunction.html">Tag Dispatched Metafunction</a>, <a class="reference internal" href="./metafunctions.html">Metafunctions</a>, <a class="reference internal" href="./numeric-cast.html">numeric_cast</a></p>
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