From: tjhunt Numerical questions From the student perspective, a numerical question looks just
- like a short-answer question.
The difference is that numerical answers are allowed - to have an accepted error. This allows a continuous range of answers - to be set.
+to have an accepted error. This allows a continuous range of answers +to be set. For example, if the answer is 30 with an accepted error of 5, +then any number between 25 and 35 will be accepted as correct. -For example, if the answer is 30 with an accepted error of 5, - then any number between 25 and 35 will be accepted as correct.
- -Numerical questions can also have case-insensitive non-numerical answers. - This is useful whenever the answer for a numerical question - is something like N/A, +inf, -inf, NaN etc
- +Like with short answer questions, different answers, or the same +answer with different precisions can be given. In this case, the first +matching answer is used to determine the score and the feedback.
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