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

[Mills, Douglas G]

<responseparam type="tolerance" default="0.5%" name="tol"
description="Numerical Tolerance" />
<responseparam name="sig" type="int_range" default="4"
description="Significant Digits" />



On 8/21/12 10:43 AM, "Gerd Kortemeyer" <korte at lite.msu.edu> wrote:

> 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.
> 
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Doug

Douglas Mills
Director of Instructional Technologies
Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois
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