longer numbers

[jeremy1234]

I am trying to write a program involving very large numbers, but VB tries to round my numbers always after they reach a certain length. Is there any way using vb basic to use a number that will not round, and as it gets larger use more memory to hold it. I am pretty sure java and c++ can do it, but for this it would be a lot easier just to program using vb. Thanks for any help.

[HarryW]

I often hear of people using currency data types to hold particularly large numbers (I think that's what they're talking about anyway) is there likely to be a limit to how large the value will be?

[kedaman]

You can use a variant (i know it's slow but this is for huge numbers) and convert it to decimal, a 96 bit datatype (that can only be stored in variants) It can store an integer with max 28 decimal places where smallest non0 value is
+/-0.0000000000000000000000000001
and largest values:
+/-79,228,162,514,264,337,593,543,950,335

Now the next step would be to store it in a byte array and do the calculations manually