#10042: Doctest failure in sage/rings/polynomial/polynomial_element.pyx
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Reporter: mpatel | Owner: mvngu
Type: defect | Status: needs_info
Priority: blocker | Milestone: sage-4.6
Component: doctest | Keywords:
Author: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Comment(by zimmerma):
> I've not looked at this code, but is this only using machine precision?
> If so, why is there any surprise this acts differently on different
machines?
if the code is only using basic arithmetic operations and the square root,
which is what it should
do to solve {{{x^2-pi}}} (which is what the failing test does) the
behaviour should not depend on
the machine used, since those operations are standardized by IEEE 754.
Paul
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