[LON-CAPA-users] prime factorization

Jay Sullivan lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:47:58 -0400


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If you tell students to enter '1' into un-needed boxes they will not
necessarily know how many non-trivial factors there are.

J

The OR-type answer (unordered) might be a good way to request the
> factors. Unfortunately, that gives away how many factors there are,
> so another way to check the result might be a simple customresponse
> that separates the answer-string by commas.
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If you tell students to enter &#39;1&#39; into un-needed boxes they will not necessarily know how many non-trivial factors there are.<br><br>J<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The OR-type answer (unordered) might be a good way to request the<br>
factors. Unfortunately, that gives away how many factors there are,<br>
so another way to check the result might be a simple customresponse<br>
that separates the answer-string by commas.<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote></div>

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