Feature suggestion: sum() ought to use a compensated summation algorithm

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Sat May 3 17:31:33 EDT 2008


Torsten Bronger wrote:

> No, the above expression should yield ''+'abc'+'efg', look for the
> signature of sum in the docs.

You're absolutely right, I misread it.  Sorry about that.

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