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authorMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2008-07-30 16:20:10 (GMT)
committerMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2008-07-30 16:20:10 (GMT)
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Rename math.sum to math.fsum
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@@ -1537,7 +1537,7 @@ Here are all of the changes that Python 2.6 makes to the core Python language.
* :func:`~math.factorial` computes the factorial of a number.
(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger; :issue:`2138`.)
- * :func:`~math.sum` adds up the stream of numbers from an iterable,
+ * :func:`~math.fsum` adds up the stream of numbers from an iterable,
and is careful to avoid loss of precision by calculating partial sums.
(Contributed by Jean Brouwers, Raymond Hettinger, and Mark Dickinson;
:issue:`2819`.)