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Re: Wildly OT: Simple math question
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Dennis Handly <[log in to unmask]>
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Dennis Handly <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 1 Oct 2001 18:01:10 -0600
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Jeff Woods ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: But if you are working with floating point values, one should perform a
: summation of many values (in this case the total of the value of the digits)
: beginning with the smallest values and adding in the largest value last in
: order to minimize the accumulation of rounding error in the final result.

You are correct sir!  I asked the IPF math lib guru and he agreed.

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