[LON-CAPA-users] Any way around this?

[Gerd Kortemeyer]

Hi,

On Aug 21, 2012, at 11:39 AM, "Mills, Douglas G" <dmills at illinois.edu> wrote:

> So <numericalresponse answer="$CB1" format="4s"> ??

Yes.


>  I have that, and have
> tried setting the variable both with and without the &format command, but to
> no avail.  8.000e-6, 8*10^-6 and even .000008000 all show up in the error
> message as 8e-06 complaining of the computer's answer being wrong.

What do you have the in "significant digits" and "tolerance" response parameters?

- Gerd.