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> The main upside to the Kahan method is that it can be incremental and online.

I got excited when I heard the claims of a method better than Kahan/Neumaier summation, but the storage requirements are enormous (6700% versus for the "small" version, versus 200% for Kahan), so I definitely wouldn't call Kahan summation "pointless". It's in fact one of the most amazing and underutilised bits of CS out there IMO.



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