Christian Tismer wrote:
> To my knowledge, always adding the smallest values first is
> best possible for minimizing cutoff/rounding, although it
> involes sorting.
Oops, no, it is better to add those which are nearest!
I should have read this earlier:
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~caam420/lectures/fpsum.html
ciao - chris
p.s.:
Note that products behave much better. Summation is really
against the nature of float.
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