>>>Do you have any C/C++ coding experience?
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>>No, but I would love to be able to do that. There are many places I would like to optimize, but has been kept from doing it because of lack of experience. That is also one reason I am looking forward for your project, because I might learn something from it.
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>Did you look at the big number spreadsheet code I created (bignums.dll)?
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>It allows for arbitrary precision calculations that exceed the 15-16 significant digits that Excel and LibreOffice Calc allow. With that spreadsheet code it allows you to specify the number of significant digits you want, and it works. I compared its output with that from www.wolframalpha.com and it was valid out to several hundred significant digits. The biggest test I did I think was 750 digits.
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>Bignums.dll page:
>http://www.libsf.org/misc/sem32/index.html
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>Direct download links:
>http://www.libsf.org/misc/sem32/bignums__20200525.zip
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>Source code:
>http://www.libsf.org/misc/sem32/bignums__source_code__20200525.zip
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>If you want to learn C/C++ I'd be willing to help you. I made some early tutorial videos a few years ago:
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>Intro2C --- Teaching Video Series --- C / C++ for VFP Developers
>See "Intro2C" section: http://www.visual-freepro.org/videos
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>Part 1: http://www.visual-freepro.org/videos/2013_08_22__introduction_to_c_from_foxpro_dev_perspective.ogv
>Part 2: http://www.visual-freepro.org/videos/2013_08_24__intro2c_from_vfp_semicolon_comments_equal_flow.ogv
>Part 3: http://www.visual-freepro.org/videos/2013_08_24__intro2c_from_vfp_hexadecimal_numbers.ogv

Great, I will certainly look at those and see if that helps me get started. Perhaps I can try out a few simple tests myself to get into it.

I haven't seen the bignumbers, but this is something I would use as well. I used an old VFP class for this (to calculate large hashnumbers for bank transfer files for instance), but it had trouble with negative numbers and differences in point settings so I had to do some adjustments to it.
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>Download them and play them in VLC if they won't play in your favorite player.