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A Logarithm Too Clever by Half (2004) (eecs.berkeley.edu)
74 points by dahart on Dec 8, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Kahan is always worth reading if you do numerical computation.


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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