On 02/23/2016 12:12 PM, dextorious wrote: > Some languages > feature more accurate options separately, but never as the default, so > it did not occur to me to specifically check the documentation for > something like sum() (which is my fault, of course, no issues there). > Having the more accurate pairwise summation algorithm in the standard > library is certainly worthwhile for some applications, but I was a bit > surprised to see it as the default.
According to Wikipedia, pairwise summation is the default algorithm in NumPy and Julia as well:
"Pairwise summation is the default summation algorithm in NumPy and the Julia technical-computing language".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pairwise_summation Ali
