What can I use instead of VPA?

I currently don't have the Symbolic Mathe Toolbox and I need to run simple exercises that involve using VPA.

Is there another way to obtain the same answers from using VPA without having access to this toolbox?

Answer 1

[James Tursa]

See the following FEX submissions by John D'Errico:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/36534-hpf-a-big-decimal-class

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/22725-variable-precision-integer-arithmetic