array shifter

[Pete]

I still don't know for what purpose you'd need such precision. Are we building rockets to the moon?

Well certainly not our moon. Moons in the Alpha Centauri star system, well, now you're getting closer.

Pi calculations, and probably some other math problems to solve, or to approximate, need a better mouse trap than DOUBLE, etc. provide.

String math, what Jack is doing with bit shifting, etc. are all valid, interesting, albeit, very involved ways of avoiding DOUBLE trouble.

Pete