Eliminate out of memory

[Forestq]

Hi,

let say I have code:

Dim L1 as Long, Dim L2 as Long
Dim L3 as Long, Dim L4 as Long
Dim L5 as Long, Dim L6 as Long

Dim sum_L as Long

L1 = 1
L2 = 100
L3 = 10000
L4 = 1000000
L5 = 100000000
L6 = 10000000000

sum_L = L1+L2+L3+L4+L5+L6 'error

when I try to add above value, I got error:
Run-time error '6':
Overflow

How to avoid or eleminate it?

 

[mikerickson]

Try sum_L as data type Double

 

[Eric W]

You may need to define all of the variables as Double (or LongLong if you have 64-bit Excel). VBA creates an internal, intermediate variable to hold each individual step of the calculation, and the size of the intermediate variable is determined by the first variable it sees.

This thread has a bit more information on the subject, although we couldn't quite find the last word from Microsoft.

https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/988052-dividing-1-large-ish-number-not-large.html

 

[Forestq]

thank you both!

I have used double - all variable defined as double. Works!

Thanks once again!

 

[Eric W]

Glad we could help.