d Abrahams and Beman Dawes, originally
          contributed the previous version of <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">numeric_cast</span><span class="special">&lt;&gt;</span></code> which already presented the idea
          of a runtime range check.
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          Later, Eric Ford, Kevin Lynch and the author spotted some genericity problems
          with that <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">numeric_cast</span><span class="special">&