I really don't think I'd want a basic `Math.sum(a, b, c)` meaning anything other than `a + b + c`, i.e. `(a + b) + c`. We should all just come to terms with the fact that floating point addition is not associative.
Or is there really some simple, O(n) algorithm to do a better (more "careful") job? Cheers On 2 October 2015 at 21:23, Waldemar Horwat <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/01/2015 23:10, Sebastian Zartner wrote: > >> While Math.sum() and Math.mean() currently don't exist, they can easily >> be polyfilled: >> See >> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/Reduce#Sum_all_the_values_of_an_array >> for summarizing the values of an array and the following code for building >> the average of the array values: >> >> let arr = [0, 1, 2, 3]; >> let total = arr.reduce(function(a, b) { >> return a + b; >> }); >> let mean = total / arr.length; >> >> Calculating the variance and standard deviation would require a bit more >> code, though are also easy to polyfill. >> Non-the-less I can see the need for having standard functions for this. >> >> Sebastian >> > > Yes, Math.sum can be polyfilled, but doing so if you want accurate answers > takes a fair amount of care. The code above is pretty bad as a polyfill > because it sometimes produces highly inaccurate answers. For example, if > arr = [1, 1e18, -1e18], then this polyfill will return the incorrect value > 0 for total, while a more careful implementation would return 1. > > Waldemar > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >
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