hk,
Great suggestion!
Thank you!
Grigory

From: LON-CAPA-users <lon-capa-users-boun...@mail.lon-capa.org> On Behalf Of H. 
K. Ng
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2019 2:12 PM
To: Discussion list for LON-CAPA users <lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org>
Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-users] Formula response won't recognize "pi"

Hi,

Formularesponse using  cas with maxima works great.

<problem>
<script type="loncapa/perl">
$ansa  = &cas('maxima','1/sqrt(4*pi^2*L*C)');
</script>

<startouttext />What is formula for resonant frequency for an LC circuit? 
<endouttext /><br />

<startouttext /><m>$ \omega_{res} = $</m><endouttext />
<formularesponse answer="$ansa" id="12">
    <textline readonly="no" />
</formularesponse>

</problem>

Regards,
-hk




On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 11:05 AM SIMIN, GRIGORY 
<si...@engr.sc.edu<mailto:si...@engr.sc.edu>> wrote:

Hi all!

I've found a strange issue in some problems requiring formula response.

I have a simple question to enter the formula for the resonant frequency.

An example of correct answer is (in other variations the formula could be a bit 
more complex than this one)

1/(2*pi*sqrt(L*C))

The correct solution is checked by sampling L and C values.

When I am entering the answer, I can see that LON-CAPA recognizes it because it 
displays the formatted formula as I am entering it:

[cid:image001.jpg@01D5A07B.29C6BE90]



But when I press submit, I got the response:

“unable to understand formula”



By experimenting with this, I found that the issue happens because of “pi” 
being a part of the answer.

If pi is replaced with 3.141, everything would work.

But it feels weird asking students to enter 3.141 instead of pi; besides, I 
don’t even want to give them a hint that pi is a part of the answer.



Why is this happening? Apparently LON-CAPA knows what “pi” means because it 
displays it correctly.



Thanks!

Grigory




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