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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