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| From | Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> |
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| Subject | sum accuracy |
| Date | Wed, 13 Apr 2016 17:51:05 +0100 |
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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. -- Robin Becker
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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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