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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

#106958 — sum accuracy

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.
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Robin Becker

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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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