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   Marco van de Voort to Patrick D. Rockwell   
   Re: New Data Types??   
   23 May 08 06:37:13   
   
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   From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2008-05-23, Patrick D. Rockwell  wrote:   
   > The largest integer types and real types for BP7 are Longint and Comp   
   > respectively, as I recall.   
      
   comp is an integer managed by the FPU and a strange beast. Extended is the   
   largest "real" floating point type.   
      
   > They hold big numbers, but can anyone write a unit that will supply data   
   > types which hold even BIGGER numbers? say, 128 bit or 256 bit numbers? Are   
   > there such units or resources available? Thanks in advance.   
      
   Yes that is possible, and IIRC there are such units in SWAG   
      
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