Julia equivalent of Python's "fsum" for floating point summation

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Thanks for the feedback everyone — looks like I have plenty of alternatives to choose from at the moment.

The default sum function in Julia is also quite accurate because it uses pairwise summation

I didn’t realize the regular sum function uses pairwise summation, this will probably be adequate for my present requirements. I need to hand in a PhD thesis in the 2 months time so it sounds like someone else will get to implementing Shewchuck’s (or Neal’s) algorithm before me. If not I will look at it again at that time.

EDIT : Out of curiosity, would this fsum equivalent belong in the stdlib or somewhere else?