[LON-CAPA-users] Forcing integer answer

[Ray Batchelor]

Hi Lars,
 I have done things like this, where the number of sig figs allowed is a 
variable from the perl script.

<responseparam description="Significant Figures" type="int_range,0-16" 
default="$siglM[0],$sighM[0]" name="sig" />

Ray

On November 20, 2002 11:10 am, Lars Jensen wrote:
> 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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