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@kno10 kno10 commented Sep 21, 2018

Surprisingly bad precision, isn't it?

Note that the traditional computation sqrt(sum((x-y)**2)) gets the results exact.

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Surprisingly bad precision, isn't it?

Note that the traditional computation sqrt(sum((x-y)**2)) gets the results exact.
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rth commented Sep 24, 2018

Yes, it's pretty bad. Integrated these tests into #12142

Also (for other readers) most of the discussion about this is happening in #9354

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