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authorMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2008-05-23 01:35:30 (GMT)
committerMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2008-05-23 01:35:30 (GMT)
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Issue #2819: Add math.sum, a function that sums a sequence of floats
efficiently but with no intermediate loss of precision. Based on Raymond Hettinger's ASPN recipe. Thanks Jean Brouwers for the patch.
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@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ Core and Builtins
Extension Modules
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+- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
+ based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
+
- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
weakref.proxy.