Re:Fast exact summation using small and large superaccumulators
by Chris2048 on Friday January 20, 2017 @05:29AM
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Was the software you worked on a general numerics platform, or something more specialised? I'm trying to learn more about the topic myself, from a finance perspective.
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Re:Fast exact summation using small and large superaccumulators
by al2o3cr on Friday January 20, 2017 @07:16AM
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This technique seems like overkill for most finance applications - you can fit nearly any sensible currency amount into a 64-bit fixed-point number (or a 128-bit if you're doing whole-economy calculations).