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-rw-r--r--numpy/random/tests/test_random.py8
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diff --git a/numpy/random/tests/test_random.py b/numpy/random/tests/test_random.py
index 7d9163e61..ee40cce69 100644
--- a/numpy/random/tests/test_random.py
+++ b/numpy/random/tests/test_random.py
@@ -360,7 +360,13 @@ class TestRandomDist(TestCase):
desired = np.array([[ 2.46852460439034849e+03, 1.41286880810518346e+03],
[ 5.28287797029485181e+07, 6.57720981047328785e+07],
[ 1.40840323350391515e+02, 1.98390255135251704e+05]])
- np.testing.assert_array_almost_equal(actual, desired, decimal=15)
+ # For some reason on 32-bit x86 Ubuntu 12.10 the [1, 0] entry in this
+ # matrix differs by 24 nulps. Discussion:
+ # http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2012-September/063801.html
+ # Consensus is that this is probably some gcc quirk that affects
+ # rounding but not in any important way, so we just use a looser
+ # tolerance on this test:
+ np.testing.assert_array_almost_equal_nulp(actual, desired, nulp=30)
def test_poisson(self):
np.random.seed(self.seed)