[LON-CAPA-users] Forcing integer answer
Lars Jensen
lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:10:33 -0800 (PST)
Hi Ray,
Thanks for the answer. The problem with your solution is that sometimes
the answer may not have 3 digits. I was looking to see if there is some
other way...?
Lars.
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Ray Batchelor wrote:
> Hi Lars,
> For those particular numbers you could set the sig figs to
> three.
> <responseparam description="Significant Figures" type="int_range,0-16"
> default="3,3" name="sig" />
>
> Of course if they then entered 153.6 they would just get the message "Please
> adjust significant figures" and would not be discounted a try.
> Probably not quite what you want.
>
> Ray
>
> On November 20, 2002 10:13 am, Lars Jensen wrote:
> > How do I force the student to enter an integer answer. Say that the
> > answer is 155 and I want to allow 154, 155, 156 as only possible
> > answers. Values between these are not allowed. If I set the tolerance to
> > 1 the system allows values in between, and setting the format to "0f"
> > only affects the display, not the student input. Is there some way I can
> > force the answer to be an integer?
> >
> > Lars.
> >
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