[LON-CAPA-admin] 2.4.0 Maxima issues

[Stuart Peter Raeburn]

Hi Stefan and Peter, 

I logged into LON-CAPA today using your library server (polya) in the "fhwf" 
domain and found that in a test course of mine in the msu domain a problem 
that uses maxima (Math Response using CAS and Hints template) graded a 
correct submission without error. 

It would appear that either you were able to resolve the maxima problem you 
were seeing with FC5, or the issue is transient. 

Stuart Raeburn
MSU LON-CAPA group 

Stefan Bisitz writes: 

> Hi there, 
> 
>> New Version 2.4.0
>> - computer algebra system maxima available to homeowkr problems,
>>    - added tags <mathresponse> <mathhint> to use maxima for grading
>>    - <formularesponse> without sample points uses maxima to grade formulas
> 
> Happy to read this but this doesn't work on our server :-( 
> 
> We installed LON-CAPA 2.4.0 on our Fedora 5 server and checked the new
> problem templates. All these problems which use maxima are NOT working: 
> 
> 1) Formula Response using Computer Algebra System:
> ERROR:Computer's answer is incorrect ("5*a*x^4"). 
> 
> 2) Formula Response using Computer Algebra System and Hints:
> ERROR:Computer's answer is incorrect ("16t^3,42t^6"). 
> 
> 3) Math Response using Computer Algebra System and Hints:
> Enter "x"
> Feedback message: "Unable to understand formula" 
> 
> 
> Maxima details (called maxima via shell):
> Maxima 5.11.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
> Using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.7 (aka GCL) 
> 
> 
> We are concerned that the old issues with wrong lisp version, Expect.pm
> etc. still might exist.
> What do you think? What do you know? 
> 
> Stefan Bisitz and Peter Riegler 
> 
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