decfloat -- again

[Jack]

the other day I noticed in the QB64 wiki that a _Float takes 32 bytes and that made me think that a rewrite of decfloat might be a good idea, I was thinking of using a 32 byte structure of 8 longs, 1 for the exponent and 7 for the mantissa at 8 digits per long it would give 56 digits, any thoughts ?
the structure would look like this

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Type decfloat
    As Unsigned Long exponent
    As Long M0
    As Long M1
    As Long M2
    As Long M3
    As Long M4
    As Long M5
    As Long M6
End Type

M0 would also include the sign of the number