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Please explain meaning of "sig" => "3 PLUS 13",

Please explain meaning of "sig" => "3 PLUS 13",

by Christian Seberino -
Number of replies: 1
Please explain meaning of "sig" => "3 PLUS 13",

I'm trying to understand the code for homework problems and I saw that a lot.

cs

P.S. Yes I did a Google and Webwork search for that phrase but couldn't find the docs myself.
In reply to Christian Seberino

Re: Please explain meaning of "sig" => "3 PLUS 13",

by Michael Gage -
were these in problems translated from the CAPA language?  (these tended to be problems on physics.)  could you post a path to an example?  This is not a common usage for webwork problems but it looks like something that might have been provided for backward compatibility.

At a quick guess I would guess that sig stands for significant figures 
-- not sure that exact meaning of 3 PLUS 13 but it looks like the old CAPA language. http://thep03.baylor.edu/CAPA/digits.html