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by kergonath 1256 days ago
> It's usually only needed when adding billions of values together and the accumulated truncation errors would be at an unacceptable level.

OTOH, it’s easy to implement, so I have a couple of functions to do it easily, and I got quite a lot of use out of them. It’s probably overkill sometimes, but sometimes it’s useful.