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You are absolutely right.

When adding numbers with large magnitudes differences (around 10^17 I think) it might exceed the format precision. I should have taken that in account when defining the error boundaries.

In dollars, you start having issues with cents when working with a tens of trillions.

For the vast majority of people this won't be an issue.





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