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sum accuracy

From Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject sum accuracy
Date 2016-04-13 17:51 +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.
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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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