diff --git a/contrib/clojure-package/test/org/apache/clojure_mxnet/operator_test.clj b/contrib/clojure-package/test/org/apache/clojure_mxnet/operator_test.clj
index 89c0ef820609..1b4b2ea2fbe3 100644
--- a/contrib/clojure-package/test/org/apache/clojure_mxnet/operator_test.clj
+++ b/contrib/clojure-package/test/org/apache/clojure_mxnet/operator_test.clj
@@ -226,12 +226,12 @@
   (let [arange (sym/arange-with-inference 0)
         data (sym/variable "data")
         added (sym/+ arange data)
-        result (range 0. 4.)
+        result (range 0 4)
         data-tmp (ndarray/zeros [4])
         exec (sym/bind added (context/default-context) {"data" data-tmp})]
     (executor/forward exec)
     (is (= 0 (count (executor/grad-arrays exec))))
-    (is (= result (-> (executor/outputs exec) (first) (ndarray/->vec))))))
+    (is (approx= 1e-4 result (-> (executor/outputs exec) (first))))))
 
 (deftest test-scalar-pow
   (let [data (sym/variable "data")
diff --git a/contrib/clojure-package/test/org/apache/clojure_mxnet/test_util.clj b/contrib/clojure-package/test/org/apache/clojure_mxnet/test_util.clj
index dcdbea645796..ecd54ca72773 100644
--- a/contrib/clojure-package/test/org/apache/clojure_mxnet/test_util.clj
+++ b/contrib/clojure-package/test/org/apache/clojure_mxnet/test_util.clj
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
   (if (and (number? x) (number? y))
     (let [diff (Math/abs (- x y))]
       (< diff tolerance))
-    (reduce (fn [x y] (and x y))
-            (map #(approx= tolerance %1 %2) x y))))
+    (and
+    	(= (count x) (count y))
+		(reduce (fn [x y] (and x y))
+            (map #(approx= tolerance %1 %2) x y)))))
 
diff --git a/contrib/clojure-package/test/org/apache/clojure_mxnet/util_test.clj b/contrib/clojure-package/test/org/apache/clojure_mxnet/util_test.clj
index 5551fab435f6..de3480827ba4 100644
--- a/contrib/clojure-package/test/org/apache/clojure_mxnet/util_test.clj
+++ b/contrib/clojure-package/test/org/apache/clojure_mxnet/util_test.clj
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
             [org.apache.clojure-mxnet.util :as util]
             [org.apache.clojure-mxnet.ndarray :as ndarray]
             [org.apache.clojure-mxnet.symbol :as sym]
+            [org.apache.clojure-mxnet.test-util :as test-util]
             [clojure.spec.alpha :as s])
   (:import (org.apache.mxnet Shape NDArrayFuncReturn NDArray)
            (scala.collection Map Set)
@@ -183,3 +184,10 @@
 (deftest test-validate
   (is (nil? (util/validate! string? "foo" "Not a string!")))
   (is (thrown-with-msg? Exception #"Not a string!" (util/validate! ::x 1 "Not a string!"))))
+
+(deftest test-approx=
+  (let [data1 [1 1 1 1]
+        data2 [1 1 1 1 9 9 9 9]
+        data3 [1 1 1 2]]
+    (is (not (test-util/approx= 1e-9 data1 data2)))
+    (is (test-util/approx= 2 data1 data3))))
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