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A Logarithm Too Clever by Half (2004)
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dahart
on Dec 8, 2020
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mjcohen
on Dec 8, 2020
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Kahan is always worth reading if you do numerical computation.
bargle0
on Dec 9, 2020
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One thing that hit me is that Matlab sums arrays in a naïve order, causing unnecessary loss of precision. I’m sure there are other things that it does poorly in retrospect, but I’m no Matlab expert.
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