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jjgreen
on April 29, 2018
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The quadratic formula and low-precision arithmetic
That costs a sort, better to use the Kahan summation formula
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahan_summation_algorithm
Retric
on April 29, 2018
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Look at the accuracy comment, it's faster but less accurate than sorting first.
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