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Function std.algorithm.iteration.sum

Sums elements of r, which must be a finite input range. Although conceptually sum(r) is equivalent to fold!((a, b) => a + b)(r, 0), sum uses specialized algorithms to maximize accuracy, as follows.

auto sum(R) (
  R r
)
if (isInputRange!R && !isInfinite!R && is(typeof(r.front + r.front)));

auto sum(R, E) (
  R r,
  E seed
)
if (isInputRange!R && !isInfinite!R && is(typeof(seed = seed + r.front)));

  • If ElementType!R is a floating-point type and R is a random-access range with length and slicing, then sum uses the pairwise summation algorithm.
  • If ElementType!R is a floating-point type and R is a finite input range (but not a random-access range with slicing), then sum uses the Kahan summation algorithm.
  • In all other cases, a simple element by element addition is done.

For floating point inputs, calculations are made in real precision for real inputs and in double precision otherwise (Note this is a special case that deviates from fold's behavior, which would have kept float precision for a float range). For all other types, the calculations are done in the same type obtained from from adding two elements of the range, which may be a different type from the elements themselves (for example, in case of integral promotion).

A seed may be passed to sum. Not only will this seed be used as an initial value, but its type will override all the above, and determine the algorithm and precision used for summation. If a seed is not passed, one is created with the value of typeof(r.front + r.front)(0), or typeof(r.front + r.front).zero if no constructor exists that takes an int.

Note that these specialized summing algorithms execute more primitive operations than vanilla summation. Therefore, if in certain cases maximum speed is required at expense of precision, one can use fold!((a, b) => a + b)(r, 0), which is not specialized for summation.

Parameters

NameDescription
seed the initial value of the summation
r a finite input range

Returns

The sum of all the elements in the range r.

Example

Ditto

import std.range;

//simple integral sumation
writeln(sum([1, 2, 3, 4])); // 10

//with integral promotion
writeln(sum([false, true, true, false, true])); // 3
writeln(sum(ubyte.max.repeat(100))); // 25500

//The result may overflow
writeln(uint.max.repeat(3).sum()); // 4294967293U
//But a seed can be used to change the sumation primitive
writeln(uint.max.repeat(3).sum(ulong.init)); // 12884901885UL

//Floating point sumation
writeln(sum([1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0])); // 10

//Floating point operations have double precision minimum
static assert(is(typeof(sum([1F, 2F, 3F, 4F])) == double));
writeln(sum([1F, 2, 3, 4])); // 10

//Force pair-wise floating point sumation on large integers
import std.math.operations : isClose;
assert(iota(ulong.max / 2, ulong.max / 2 + 4096).sum(0.0)
           .isClose((ulong.max / 2) * 4096.0 + 4096^^2 / 2));

Authors

Andrei Alexandrescu

License

Boost License 1.0.