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Subject: Re: sum accuracy
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On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 11:39:45 +0100, Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org>
declaimed the following:

>On 15/04/16 11:10, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> writes:
>>
	<snip>
>>>
>>> Not with Fraction it isn't:
>>>
>>> from fractions import Fraction
>>>
>>> def exact_sum(nums):
>>>      return sum(map(Fraction, nums))
>>>
	<snip>
>
>So I'm uninitiated:
>NameError: name 'exact_sum' is not defined
>

	It's a use-defined function whose code was given in the content you had
quoted.
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