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Description
On PPC this test fails as reported in #7836
o = 1 + np.finfo(np.longdouble).eps
assert_equal(np.longdouble(repr(o)), o,
"repr was %s" % repr(o))
with
AssertionError:
Items are not equal: repr was 1.0
ACTUAL: 1.0
DESIRED: 1.0
Among other things, probably finfo, it looks like repr does not have sufficient digits.