#10952: better numerical accuracy testing
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   Reporter:  robertwb                                                 |        
  Owner:  mvngu                      
       Type:  enhancement                                              |        
 Status:  needs_work                 
   Priority:  critical                                                 |      
Milestone:  sage-4.7.2                 
  Component:  doctest                                                  |       
Keywords:  sd32                       
Work_issues:                                                           |       
Upstream:  N/A                        
   Reviewer:  Jason Grout, Mariah Lenox, William Stein, John Palmieri  |        
 Author:  Robert Bradshaw, Rob Beezer
     Merged:                                                           |   
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Comment(by jhpalmieri):

 But `float(1ee7)` raises an error.  Why would we want to match that?

 Re the issue of raising tolerance, I hope that referees will keep an eye
 on that sort of thing.  Dave Kirkby, for example, is a strong advocate of
 not arbitrarily raising tolerance.

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