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| From | Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> |
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| Subject | Re: sum accuracy |
| Date | Wed, 13 Apr 2016 19:57:26 +0300 |
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Robin Becker writes: > Does anyone know if sum does anything special to try and improve > accuracy? My simple tests seem to show it is exactly equivalent to a > for loop summation. You want math.fsum.
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sum accuracy Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> - 2016-04-13 17:51 +0100 Re: sum accuracy Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-04-13 19:57 +0300
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