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 _______________________________________________ LON-CAPA-users mailing list LON-CAPA-users@mail.lon-capa.org<mailto:LON-CAPA-users@mail.lon-capa.org> https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-users__;!!PhOWcWs!npThfddABuFrPgPy2N5gLLGz_02Hs0mlKSiyGgd0QGK0jAvPgqAmVRpO7BG6$<https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=08ef73c5-547d3b52-08ef3d04-ac1f6b0e682e-6a612b1b2a925639&q=1&e=07e34fb4-6e4c-47e6-be96-5e86706f4920&u=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__http%3A%2F%2Fmail.lon-capa.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Flon-capa-users__%3B%21%21PhOWcWs%21npThfddABuFrPgPy2N5gLLGz_02Hs0mlKSiyGgd0QGK0jAvPgqAmVRpO7BG6%24>
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