> You do realise that you need to store arbitrary binary blobs which don't nicely align to memory words? And that once you can store them you need to write custom functions that do bitwise manipulation on those arbitrary blocks of memory?

Yes what part of my response to you gave you the impression that I did not?

> Meanwhile in racket I got arbitrary balanced ternary manista and exponent precision in less time it took to write this post.

Your claim was that it could not be done in cpp, not that it was faster/simpler/whatever-new-goalpost-you're-now-presenting in racket.

> less time it took to write this post

An interpreted language with a runtime and a GC is easier to use than a systems language? I think this novel discovery is worth a turing award indeed! I'll be sure to refer you for one. Maybe even an honorary doctorate at my alma mater.