G'day all,
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:41:27 -0500
Stavros Macrakis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hmm. Why not use the same method to guarantee the same result?
Hmm, I did not look at the source code but, potentially, sum() could
use some tricks to reduce rounding errors further that would not be
available to cumsum(); e.g. sorting the data before adding summing
them; or grouping them into groups of roughly similar magnitude and
then sum group-by-group. So it does may be counter-productive to use
the same method.....
> Or at least document the possibility that cumsum(x)[length(x)] !=
> sum(x)... that seems like an easy trap to fall into.
But this is already documented, isn't it? FAQ 7.31. ;-))
Cheers,
Berwin
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