https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82865

Eike Rathke <[email protected]> changed:

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             Status|REOPENED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |NOTABUG

--- Comment #7 from Eike Rathke <[email protected]> ---
Please get acquainted with the IEEE 754 floating point format before you try to
tell someone that there should be no error. Or read
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;78113

And yes, summing floating point values does depend on the order the values are
encountered.

This is not a bug, this is a limitation in computer hardware and software and
the same in most spreadsheet implementations. One can implement magnitude
sorted sums and other sorts of tricks to get around the problem to some degree.

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