Accurate floating-point summation
- 1 June 1970
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 13 (6) , 361-362
- https://doi.org/10.1145/362384.362498
Abstract
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.Keywords
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