commit 3c5feaffde1944052830c896ae39c54e76a2e063
author Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Mon Dec 09 09:32:34 2019 -0800
committer Mark Dickinson <mdickinson@enthought.com> Mon Dec 09 11:32:34 2019 -0600
tree c9375b7ce2d2575ec9d5924b2f9e7b773ab4783f
parent c5a2a974d3608810dc0b06b46876542e1216f7e6

bpo-38992: avoid fsum test failure from constant-folding (GH-17513) (GH-17530)

* Issue 38992: avoid fsum test failure

* Add NEWS entry
(cherry picked from commit bba873e633f0f1e88ea12fb935cbd58faa77f976)

Co-authored-by: Mark Dickinson <mdickinson@enthought.com>

Lib/test/test_math.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_math.py b/Lib/test/test_math.py
index 6edc3e1..ac97824 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_math.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_math.py
@@ -654,7 +654,6 @@
              float.fromhex('0x1.df11f45f4e61ap+2')),
             ([(-1.)**n/n for n in range(1, 1001)],
              float.fromhex('-0x1.62a2af1bd3624p-1')),
-            ([1.7**(i+1)-1.7**i for i in range(1000)] + [-1.7**1000], -1.0),
             ([1e16, 1., 1e-16], 10000000000000002.0),
             ([1e16-2., 1.-2.**-53, -(1e16-2.), -(1.-2.**-53)], 0.0),
             # exercise code for resizing partials array
@@ -663,6 +662,13 @@
              float.fromhex('0x1.5555555555555p+970')),
             ]
 
+        # Telescoping sum, with exact differences (due to Sterbenz)
+        terms = [1.7**i for i in range(1001)]
+        test_values.append((
+            [terms[i+1] - terms[i] for i in range(1000)] + [-terms[1000]],
+            -terms[0]
+        ))
+
         for i, (vals, expected) in enumerate(test_values):
             try:
                 actual = math.fsum(vals)