[Alex]
> If you're considering revisions to sum's design, my suggestion would
be
> to find a way to let the user tell sum to use a more accurate approach
> when summing floats.  

FWIW, when accuracy is an issue, I use:

   sum(sorted(data, key=abs))


Raymond
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