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sumKahan

Calculates the sum of the numbers with Kahan compensated summation algorithm Slower than sum function. The compensation works only for Float types.

Syntax

sumKahan(x)

Arguments

Returned value

Example

Query:

SELECT sum(0.1), sumKahan(0.1) FROM numbers(10);

Result:

┌───────────sum(0.1)─┬─sumKahan(0.1)─┐
│ 0.9999999999999999 │ 1 │
└────────────────────┴───────────────┘