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2015-12-04 Thread Jacob Bond
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Re: [LON-CAPA-users] Preprocessor vs. Custom Response

2015-12-04 Thread Gerd Kortemeyer
Hi, > On Dec 4, 2015, at 11:58 AM, Jacob Bond wrote: > > I have a stylistic question about preprocessing versus custom response. An > example of the particular situation is that I have a question whose answer is > a rational number, say 5/2. I would like either 5/2 or 2.5

Re: [LON-CAPA-users] Preprocessor vs. Custom Response

2015-12-04 Thread Gerd Kortemeyer
Hi, > On Dec 4, 2015, at 2:41 PM, Jacob Bond wrote: >> >> Are you actually looking for the fraction to be reduced? Because we can >> check that very generally. >> > > Yes, that is the main idea. Okay, then I would use Maxima to figure out if the reduced fraction is equal

Re: [LON-CAPA-users] Preprocessor vs. Custom Response

2015-12-04 Thread Gerd Kortemeyer
Hi, Are you actually looking for the fraction to be reduced? Because we can check that very generally. - Gerd. -- Gerd Kortemeyer http://www.msu.edu/user/kortemey/ On Dec 4, 2015, at 1:16 PM, Jacob Bond wrote: >> If this is really a static answer format, then it should