[Shootout-list] comments on the "statistics" test (reposted from moderation)

[Randy Melton]

(reposted, as this was held up in moderation)

I looked at the statistics test.

I'm not sure the "skew" (or the Kurtosis) is calculated correctly
according the the definitions of skew that I found on:
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/eda35b.htm

But for the moment assuming the "C-gcc" is the golden standard (it
passes according to the web page)  I found mistakes/differences in the
Tcl code:

line:
23         set skew [expr {$skew + pow($skew, 3)}]

probably should be:
23         set skew [expr {$skew + pow($deviation, 3)}]

I was looking at optimizations, but until I know the test passes I
don't want to attempt them.

thanks,
randy melton