#!/usr/bin/env python from sys import float_info import math mant_dig = float_info.mant_dig etiny = float_info.min_exp - mant_dig def fsum(iterable): """Full precision summation. Compute sum(iterable) without any intermediate accumulation of error. Based on the 'lsum' function at http://code.activestate.com/recipes/393090/ """ tmant, texp = 0, 0 for x in iterable: mant, exp = math.frexp(x) mant, exp = int(math.ldexp(mant, mant_dig)), exp - mant_dig if texp > exp: tmant <<= texp-exp texp = exp else: mant <<= exp-texp tmant += mant # Round tmant * 2**texp to a float. The original recipe # used float(str(tmant)) * 2.0**texp for this, but that's # a little unsafe because str -> float conversion can't be # relied upon to do correct rounding on all platforms. tail = max(len(bin(abs(tmant)))-2 - mant_dig, etiny - texp) if tail > 0: h = 1 << (tail-1) tmant = tmant // (2*h) + bool(tmant & h and tmant & 3*h-1) texp += tail return math.ldexp(tmant, texp)