[LON-CAPA-users] prettyprint going to pdf question

[lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org]

Hi,

I am chasing down a minor issue, which I assume is some formatting issue I
am ignoring.

In a problem, I format a number for displaying (either in the text of the
problem, or in a multiple choice foil) as prettyprint "2e".

In html, this looks fine.
In the printed pdf file, I get something like
     \ensuremath{2.25\times 10^{5}}
every time I use any variable formatted in this way.

Sample code is shown below.
I have jsMath mode turned on by default, not the usual "default" setting
for math equations.

Any clues are welcome,
brew

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<problem>
<script type="loncapa/perl">#Enter the computations here
$mass = &random (1e5,4e5,0.25e5);
$right=&prettyprint($mass ,"2e");
</script>

....
<startouttext />The answer is $right <endouttext />