Multiple scattering by two conducting circular cylinders is studied by applying three different methods: the method of Zitron and Karp (ZK), the method of Karp and Russek, and an iterative method which gives the exact solution. It is found from the numerical results for the total scattering cross section that the ZK method gives very precise results even for rather large

and small

, where

and

are the radius of the cylinder and the separation between the cylinders, respectively.