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I am not clear on the `dat` approach. I have read and reread the contributing guide, and I can read it both ways. What I can say for `stdlib` is...

@blahah For `stdlib`, separate repositories are for consumption, not development. Meaning, we publish separate repositories so consumers can fork and modify individual aspects of the project without needing to setup...

@blahah Do all development inside monorepo, and we have a script which builds the repository for each individual package.

@blahah Yeah, sorry if I muddied the water to begin with. What you outline seems reasonable, and I will be curious to see how things progress.

And also, seems as though some of the dataset fields are computed (e.g., daily calorie totals) and/or aggregated (e.g., group totals). Would it be possible to also share the script...

This PR has now been updated to reflect the current workgroup consensus to disallow casting from a complex floating-point dtype to a real-valued dtype.

As discussed in the 3 November 2022 meeting, no objections were raised. This PR should be ready for merge. @leofang would you mind taking one last look and then approving?

Thanks, @leofang! In it goes!

Updated to include a warning documenting that the choice of branch cut is under provisional status and moved the definition of a branch cut to the list of specification definitions....

Updated the PR by adding a discussion concerning branch cuts to design topics and linking back to the document from `sqrt`. This PR should be ready for another review.