Quote Originally Posted by richard View Post
no its not because of the word var its just the way */ works .

all of this only applies to pbpw only , pbpl is another story
Yes */ can only result in a word the same applies to DIV32 in PBP2.xx as LONGs are not supported.

PBP3 supports LONG variables and */ returns the top 32 bits of a 48 bits internal result, ignoring the lower 16 bits or dividing by 65536 which ever you prefer.