Can someone explain why scipy.integrate.quad gives different results for equally long ranges while integrating sin(X)?

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5811...

Answer 1 links:
["What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating Point Arithmetic".]: http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~dws/g...

Answer 2 links:
[scipy discussion board]: http://www.nabble.com/Scipy-User-f33045....

Answer 3 links:
[Arc length]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arclength

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