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Comment by xyzzyz

11 years ago

Not to mention the fact that adding many floating point numbers in a naive way results in a serious error accumulation, which is why things like Kahan summation algorithm[1] exist.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahan_summation_algorithm

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