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		ken on March 23, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Calculating the mean of a list of numbers (2016) How is that different from the second example?

antirez on March 23, 2019 [–]

That you don't have to know the number of elements to sum at start. But I think the precision loss is even greater this way.

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