Simple Calculated Question Error

Simple Calculated Question Error

by Michael Knichel -
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I am trying to create a question bank and when I try to add a simple calculated question after I set the variables and click on Generate, I get an error

Exception - syntax error, unexpected '8' (T_LNUMBER)

There is a link to more info, but it just states that there is no more info.

Using Moodle 3.9...

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Re: Simple Calculated Question Error

by Rick Jerz -
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Explore Moodle's docs for the question type that you are trying to use.

If you are trying to use "calculated multi-choice" questions, I have a MoodleMoot presentation about this several years ago that might help.

MoodleMoot2019 (Global and Mountain), "Using Calculated Multichoice Questions" 
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Re: Simple Calculated Question Error

by Michael Knichel -
Ok, you got me, I was forgetting that the answer needed a * sign (no implicit multiplication).
So now I can generate the wildcard values, but even though I set the decimal places to zero, it is still generating decimals.
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