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[Rex Abert]

Peter and Gerd-

Thanks for the suggestions.  Gerd's is a more elegant, one-line version of mine that handles the rounding correctly, where my original version simply chopped the following digits.  In computing a grade average, improperly handling the rounding in the fourth decimal place isn't a huge concern (to me at least---maybe to the student).

Peter's suggestion of "sprintf" also works nicely.  I used 

$x = some formula that computes an average;
sprintf  '%.3f', $x; 

Peter-

The spreadsheet is Lon-Capa's gradebook. Go to Main Menu->Grading and Statistics->View calculated grades (Spreadsheet).  

After using LC since 2008, and after much begging from students to post their grades, I decided to tackle the spreadsheet.  I was intimidated at first, and the documentation is a bit minimalist, but I've got it figured out.  Like everything else LC, there is a bit of a steep learning curve at first, but the results are well worth it.  The gradebook/spreadsheet works PERFECTLY,  and it is very flexible.  I've been able to incorporate all the offline grades and get students' grade averages computed correctly.


Rex Abert
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Tallahassee Community College
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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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> From: lon-capa-users-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org [lon-capa-users-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org] on behalf of Lucas, Mark [lucasm at ohio.edu]
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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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