Timeline for Incremental averaging
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| Sep 14, 2020 at 23:36 | comment | added | Boris B. |
@CharlesHarring Exactly. If mean * count doesn't overflow your data type then a simple running total won't overflow as well, and will be more accurate to boot.
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| Apr 15, 2020 at 8:29 | comment | added | Charles Harring | but this has the same problem as above right? Where if n becomes very large the (previous mean) * (count -1) it 'could' cause an overlfow (in computers) | |
| S Apr 12, 2014 at 9:02 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Apr 12, 2014 at 8:42 | history | answered | Mark Stocks | CC BY-SA 3.0 |