whats the best way to do big additions – I'm a Mathematician 2024/25

Question: whats the best way to do big additions
- Keywords:
  addition,
  large,
  study
Asked by faux522fees to Sujit B, ruthmclauchlan, Ruth A, paulterrill, Nick L, kathrynhowells, Fiona B on 3 Feb 2025.
- Ruth McLauchlan answered on 3 Feb 2025:
  
  Spreadsheets (EXCEL) are great for analysing lots of data and performing calculations but if you have lots of big numbers it can be better to write a computer programme to do that for. We do lots of coding in Python.

Question: whats the best way to do big additions