“…This will certainly be true if the Marchuk-Strang splitting procedure is used. This procedure, which was introduced in Marchuk (1968), see also Marchuk (1980Marchuk ( , 1982Marchuk ( , 1986Marchuk ( , 1988, and Strang (1968), is of order two. Therefore, it will be optimal to use this procedure together with second-order numerical methods.…”