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-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: lon-capa-users-bounces@mail.lon-capa.org on behalf of Gerd Kortemeyer<BR>
Sent: Wed 2/8/2012 6:41 PM<BR>
To: Discussion list for LON-CAPA users<BR>
Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-users] Extracting the numerical value from asolve()Maxima command<BR>
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Hi,<BR>
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On Feb 8, 2012, at 9:29 PM, Seema Ali wrote:<BR>
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> I can't tell what is causing the error. It works with other negative solutions.<BR>
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> ERROR: Computer's answer is incorrect ("-1.24"). It is likely that the tolerance range [-1.24200376392202, -1.24000376392203] needs to be adjusted.<BR>
> This error occurred while processing response 1_7 in part 0<BR>
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The problem indeed is the interplay between your answer format and your tolerance:<BR>
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<numericalresponse answer="$answer" format="2F"><BR>
<responseparam name="tol" type="tolerance" description="Numerical Tolerance" default="0.001" /><BR>
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* You have "2F" as the answer format, which means two digits right of the decimal, as in -1.24.<BR>
* Your tolerance is set to "0.001", which is three digits right of the decimal.<BR>
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MAXIMA apparently calculated -1.24100376392202 as the answer. Your tolerance of 0.001 gives you [-1.24200376392202, -1.24000376392203] as the accepted interval. The "2F"-rounded solution is -1.24, which is outside your own tolerance.<BR>
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I would suggest to either use "3F" for the format or "0.01" for the tolerance, so that the computer's calculated answer is actually graded as correct.<BR>
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- Gerd.<BR>
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