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Sure, yes, that is possible, and is something that I originally thought of doing. But there are soliid reasons why I want to do it this way. One is that of computational efficiency, treating reals as...

Sure, yes.. but what I neglected to mention in my original post, was something like this:-

Lets say, that I am initially adding two numbers of the Complex class, then because I will not know what...

Ok, I have 3 classes, An abstract one (called 'NumberType'), and two standard ones (called 'Real' & 'Complex'). The two standard classes are child classes of the abstract class.

As you may have...