On Saturday, 18 October 2014 at 08:58:22 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
As that article also points out (IIRC), you can got pretty good results by divide-and-conquer without any extra work.
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/393090/ It is built into Python: import math a = [1e99,1.0,-1e99] print sum(a) 0.0 print math.fsum(a) 1.0
