sum accuracy

Jussi Piitulainen jussi.piitulainen at helsinki.fi
Wed Apr 13 12:57:26 EDT 2016

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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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