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I still think using Decimal is likely misleading and keeping it as Number is better. Number is the general term we're using for "any scalar numeric type", while Decimal has existing and historical ties to "floating-point" in particular (IEEE or otherwise) or otherwise being restricted to base-10 #2295

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I still think using Decimal is likely misleading and keeping it as Number is better. Number is the general term we're using for "any scalar numeric type", while Decimal has existing and historical ties to "floating-point" in particular (IEEE or otherwise) or otherwise being restricted to base-10

But I do agree Literal is a good/reasonable suffix

Originally posted by @tannergooding in dotnet/runtime#131221 (comment)

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