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About Adding 1000000 doubles drawn uniformly from [0, 1) from left to right lands a mean of 196.86 units in the last place (at most 589) from the correctly rounded sum over 50 draws, and the mean error grows as about n to the power 0.545 for n from 1000 to 1000000, near the square-root growth that independent rounding errors predict.

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