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Accurate floating-point summation

By Peter Linz
Communications of the ACM, June 1970, Vol. 13 No. 6, Pages 361-362
10.1145/362384.362498
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This paper describes an alternate method for summing a set of floating-point numbers. Comparison of the error bound for this method with that of the standard summation method shows that it is considerably less sensitive to propagation of round-off error.

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