Ts = randn(200,1000);  %random data
Rtest = corrcoef(Ts);      %get correlation matrix of these
isequal(Rtest,Rtest.')     %check correlation matrix for symmetry
-> ans = 0

The asymmetry is about the rounding error, but where does it come from? If each symmetric value is computed once and then assigned twice, this should't happen.
When I use my real data instead of random, the correlation matrix is completely symmetric.

I'm using R2011b 32-bit on Ubuntu.

Benedikt

Well, that would seem to indicate that it wasn't just computed once,
doesn't it?  Order can make a difference in floating point; a lsb error
isn't a flaw under IEEE afaik that you can expect such to not occur on
occasion.

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I don't have the statistics toolbox, but if corrcoeff is an mfile, you could look inside to verify whether  in fact each symmetric value is computed only once. It sounds like it isn't implemented this way.
Doing

Rtest=.5*(Rtest+Rtest.')

will probably help.