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 Array Out of Memory Error
 
 ■ It is possible to get a "Subscript out of range" error when you declare a
   huge dynamic array, even though you have plenty of memory. This is because
   when you use the huge (/Ah) option, you can declare dynamic fixed-length
   string arrays and dynamic numeric arrays to a size greater than 64K.
   However, if you are declaring an array and the size of its elements isn't
   an even power of 2, the array will be limited to 128K.
   See: ◄BC Command-Line Options►
 
 ■ You can obtain huge arrays greater than 128K by padding the type to become
   a size that is a power of 2. For example:
 
         TYPE Padded
              A   AS DOUBLE
              B   AS STRING * 215
              Pad AS STRING * 33       ' To pad out the type to 256 bytes
         END TYPE
         Max = 430
         REM $DYNAMIC
         DIM NewOne(Max) AS Padded
 
 See: ◄Array Storage Summary►