What is the “base class” for C# numeric value types?

Question

Say I want to have a method that takes any kind of number, is there a base class (or some other concept) that I can use?

As far as I know I have to make overloads f

Answer 1

The base class of the numeric types is ValueType.

Unfortunately that still won't help you: DateTime, bool, Enum and hundreds of other types also derive from ValueType. There's no NumericType base class in .NET.