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@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ Danielle Jenkins
 Dave Hunt
 David Díaz-Barquero
 David Mohr
+David Paul Röthlisberger
 David Szotten
 David Vierra
 Daw-Ran Liou
diff --git a/changelog/5576.feature.rst b/changelog/5576.feature.rst
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+New `NUMBER <https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/doctest.html#using-doctest-options>`__
+option for doctests to ignore irrelevant differences in floating-point numbers.
+Inspired by Sébastien Boisgérault's `numtest <https://github.com/boisgera/numtest>`__
+extension for doctest.