Kahan summation algorithm

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英文释义

专有名词
  1. An algorithm that significantly reduces the numerical error in the total obtained by adding a sequence of finite-precision floating-point numbers, compared to the obvious approach, by tracking the accumulated small errors in a separate variable.

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The algorithm is attributed to Canadian mathematician William Kahan (born 1933).
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