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Remove out of date paragraph about narrower types being promoted.
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timholy committed Aug 6, 2015
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Expand Up @@ -231,12 +231,6 @@ modern computers. In applications where overflow is possible, explicit checking
for wraparound produced by overflow is essential; otherwise, the ``BigInt`` type
in :ref:`man-arbitrary-precision-arithmetic` is recommended instead.

To minimize the practical impact of this overflow, integer addition,
subtraction, multiplication, and exponentiation operands are promoted
to ``Int`` or ``UInt`` from narrower integer types. (However,
divisions, remainders, and bitwise operations do not promote narrower
types.)

Division errors
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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