[bug #61143] sum of single precision numbers hits precision limit due to naive summation

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Update of bug #61143 (group octave):

             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed
           Fixed Release:                    None => 11.1.0 (current stable)

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Follow-up Comment #36:

This has been fixed in Octave 11, with the relevant updates to the core
statistics functions.

octave:1> x=single(100*ones(100e+6,1));
octave:2> sum(x,'double')
ans = 1.0000e+10
octave:3> mean(x, 'double')
ans = 100
octave:4> mean(x)
ans = 100

Closing report.


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