Accurate floating-point summation

  • Authors:
  • Peter Linz

  • Affiliations:
  • New York Univ., New York

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1970

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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.