The Calculator Can Hold Only a Few Significant Digits

question 22

True/False

The calculator can hold only a few significant digits. When adding a set of positive numbers of widely varying magnitude on a calculator, in order to get the result with the highest precision, one should start at the largest number and add successively smaller ones.

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