[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #747: 9th order prolongation test fails with REAL_PRECISION=4

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#747: 9th order prolongation test fails with REAL_PRECISION=4
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  Reporter:  hinder  |       Owner:  eschnett
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  new     
  Priority:  major   |   Milestone:          
 Component:  Carpet  |     Version:          
Resolution:          |    Keywords:          
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Comment (by eschnett):

 Right, it should be epsilon, not min.

 4/7 sound like a very fine-tuned choice. What about 100*eps^(3/4)? Or
 maybe a lookup table, manually choosing 1e-12 and 1e-4? Or maybe we want
 1e+3*eps, acknowledging that we lose 3 digits in our calculations.

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