[LON-CAPA-users] (no subject)

[Peter Dencker]

Hello.


There is the perl builtin  'sprintf '

Does

$y = sprintf  '%.3f', $z;

work?


(Could not test it. What is the 'spreadsheet'?)

Peter


On 11/02/2015 11:13 PM, Rex Abert wrote:
> Mark-
> 
> I've tried that.  The function &roundto($x,$n) works fine in problem scripts, but returns "undefined" in the spreadsheet.
> 
> Rex Abert
> Associate Professor of Mathematics
> Tallahassee Community College
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> 
> Rex,
> 
> There is a function: roundto(x,n)  available in perl safe space within the coding of a
> problem. You might try it to see if it works in the spreadsheet.
> 
> $y = &roundto($z,3);
> 
> will round z to 3 decimal places.
> 
> Later,
> Mark
> 
> 
> On Nov 2, 2015, at 4:40 PM, Rex Abert <ABERTR at tcc.fl.edu> wrote:
> 
>> I have a question about rounding values to, say, 3 or 4 digits in the spreadsheet.  I've come up with the following hack that does the job, but i was wondering if there was a more elegant (built-in?) way to do it.
>>
>>
>> $x = &SUMSEQ("T","regexp:Homework")/&SUMSEQ("S","regexp:Homework")*100;
>> $x *= 1000;
>> $x = int($x);
>> $x /= 1000;
>> $x;
>>
>> In the above code, columns S and T contain points available and points earned, depending on whether the due date has passed or not.
>>
>> Rex Abert
>> Associate Professor of Mathematics
>> Tallahassee Community College
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