need help with numbers in VB

[ukamed]

I am using Visual Basic 2005, and I am new in VB, so I had to do something like factorial of the number, and I did that part but sometimes it gives me numbers like this one 1.1684908531676833E+021, as you can see there is an "E" (sorry about my english as I dont know how do you call this in english, may be exponent!!!!) and when I want to add another number to the first one VB is giving me an error. Example

X = 1.1684908531676833E+021
Y = 70
when I try this
x+y it is giving me the error, and I think the "E" is the problem, can soemone telling me how can I fix this, hope u understood me??


Thanx in advance


Luca Bertone

[mmkhetan]

If you have declared your variable x or y as integer then only you may face the problem. otherwise there should not be any problem. however the results will be still the same = 1.1684908531676833E+021, as the value of Y is too small to effect the results and will be same as x only.
I am using vb6 and this expression does not give any probelm in evaluating it.

[ukamed]

thanx for reply,

But no, that's not the problem, the problem is that VB 2005 it gives an error when trying to calculate x+y! Hope you understand what I am saying..