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

[Mills, Douglas G]

Thank you Ray. I was concluding that that might be the case. For this
particular set of questions we're collecting student data that we want
within a certain range and are then displaying their answers back rather
than "the computer's answer" so since they never actually see the computer's
answer, I'm fudging it a bit, so 8.001e-6 rather than 8.000e-6. Though not
ideal, it works for now.


On 8/21/12 11:06 AM, "Raymond Batchelor" <batchelo at sfu.ca> wrote:

> Douglas,
>          I have experienced this kind of error message with a variety of
> problems, which nonetheless work OK.
> I think you should just try to answer your existing problem AS A STUDENT.  It
> probably works OK for in production.
> I think the error message is just info for you as author/course coordinator.
> 
> The system does not recognize your attempts to set sig figs on the computer's
> answer but it WILL check for 4 sig figs from the students.
> You might have to 'live' with a few little bomb icons and error messages, but
> it should be transparent for the students.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Ray
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Douglas G Mills" <dmills at illinois.edu>
> To: "Discussion list for LON-CAPA users" <lon-capa-users at mail.lon-capa.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, 21 August, 2012 08:54:52
> Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-users] Any way around this?
> 
> Ok, but even so the error message quotes the computer's answer as 8e-06 with
> nothing but 1 sig fig, regardless of how hard I try to get it to recognize
> that in fact I'm giving it 4 sig figs. What is wanted here is 4 sig figs, so
> turning it into a range all the way down to 1 sig fig seems like removing
> the sig fig requirement altogether, no?
> 
> 
> On 8/21/12 10:50 AM, "Gerd Kortemeyer" <korte at lite.msu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> That means the expected answer from the student (and the computer) needs to
>> have exactly four significant digits. I would turn that into a range.
>> 
>> - Gerd.
>> 
>> On Aug 21, 2012, at 11:48 AM, "Mills, Douglas G" <dmills at illinois.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> <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
>>> 
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>>> University of Illinois
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> Doug
> 
> Douglas Mills
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> Department of Chemistry
> University of Illinois
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Doug

Douglas Mills
Director of Instructional Technologies
Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois
dmills at illinois.edu
(217) 244-5739