[LON-CAPA-users] Numerical Input with no correct answer
Guy Albertelli II
lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:21:57 -0500 (EST)
Hi Todd,
> I'm trying to put together a problem where a student enters a parameter
> x, which was a value obtained in a lab, and then use that value to
> calculate some function y(x).
>
> My problem is I haven't yet come up with a way for *any* value of x to
> be acceptable. The best I've come up with is to let the answer be some
> huge number with 100% tolerance. Is there a better way to do this other
> than with the numerical response code here?
Currently that is probably the best way for now. (Id' go with an
answer of zero and a large absolute tolerance, but ...)
There is a half finished response type <dataresponse> which might have
been more approriate, but the numerical response seems to work good
enough.
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