Speaking from no experience, but it should be doable. But since in most applications you're going to use floating point anyway (or, if you're using fixed point,

Speaking from no experience, but it should be doable. But since in most applications you're going to use floating point anyway (or, if you're using fixed point, maybe right bit shift or maybe even do integer division until it fits the range of your value), the extra precision would be discarded in the end.