[issue25177] OverflowError in statistics.mean when summing large floats

[David MacIver]

David MacIver added the comment:

I'm not sure what you mean by float having a limit here. It's certainly finite precision, but there is still a representable value with that finite precision closest to the mean.

As an example where there is an obvious correct answer that will trigger this error: statistics.mean([sys.float_info.max, sys.float_info.max]), this should return sys.float_info.max (which is definitely representable!), but instead raises this overflow error.

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