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The study of collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data.
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Sum over very small exponentials: Underflow
I am trying to compute (in C) a sum like
$S = \sum_i \exp( - a_i )$,
where $10^{4} < a_i < 10^{5}$ are approximately normal distributed. So even if I do the Log-Sum-Exp trick
$S = \exp(\log[\sum …