[SciPy-dev] test error on Solaris using Sun's compilers
Travis Oliphant
oliphant at ee.byu.edu
Wed Sep 11 18:15:52 EDT 2002
> > >> I manually executed the code in scipy.stats.morestats.shapiro,
> and
> > got
> > >> different results from the statlib.swilk call. On the Sun I
> got:
> > ...
> > Pearu> It looks like the test codes need a fix, maybe decimal-=1.
> >
> > I will submit a patch.
>
> Things like this we'll need to help out with to make sure they make
> numerical sense.
This is just a test issue. Only single precision is used in the Fortran
code and so the test should not be expecting more precision than about 6
or 7 digits.
-Travis
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