[SciPy-user] Floating-point summation

[Nils Wagner]

Hi all,

Afaik scipy's sum(x) relies on Numeric's sum implementation.
However, the result of the actual implementation of sum(x) may be inaccurate
as illustrated in the small example (sum.py).

Any comment ?

Nils

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