@luke quickly replied that there will not be any new first-class variable types added to QB64, which is a pity (for me). On internet research it seems that even with C++ language that 64 bits is the limit. So from the discontinuation of MS PDS7.1 (upgrade to QB45) some thirty years ago - there seems to be no expansion of bits. I think that IBM for a number (if not most or all) of mainframes, the OS was highly scalable and already had 128 bits and this predates 30 years ago. It seems that since the Intel architecture is only 64bits, no one wants to have say a C++ written library to handle 128bit multiplication.
I started looking at
@bplus OHI and am a bit lost at this stage to "extract" the least code required to incorporate in my programs. (To be able to do many digits of resolution for the basics - add, subtract, multiply and divide). Has anyone previously done this?
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Even if BPlus code is used, I will be limited - eg doing SQR, TAN, <>, arrays, input # etc would be a pain!
Luke mentioned wrapping something like GMP. I read into this a bit, it was interesting that only some success was reported when using windows. I gather that GMP (and other similar versions) are written in maybe C++ (or some other language that I have no training, knowledge or experience with). My past experience with trying to use "packages" (like GMP etc) is that I end up downloading maybe Gigabytes, cannot get it to work with my present version of Windows (10 x64), found that the forums were not helpful in "getting started", and often very old ( eg a number of years) which does not interact with versions
updates from Windows.