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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