Re: Sorting with Infinity
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- Subject: [mg23526] Re: [mg23513] Sorting with Infinity
- From: Carl Woll <carlw at u.washington.edu>
- Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 22:29:58 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi Jack,
Use the sorting function option of Sort:
In[1]:=
Sort[{7, -2, -Infinity, Infinity, 1}, Less]
Out[1]=
{-Infinity, -2, 1, 7, Infinity}
Carl
Jack Goldberg wrote:
> Hi group;
>
> I construct lists which may look like this
>
> {7,-2,-Infinity,Infinity,1}
>
> When this list is sorted by using Sort, I get
>
> {-2,1,7,-Infinity,Infinity}
>
> I would prefer, naturally,
>
> {-Infinity,-2,1,7,Infinity}
>
> This is easy to do if one doesn't care about elegance. Without
> spelling out the obvious details, here are a few kludges:
>
> (1) Replace Infinity by 10^15, Sort then switch back to Infinity.
> (2) Use Append and Prepend after Sort and deleting infinities.
> (3) RotateRight after Sort and switch signs on infinities
>
> Anyone got a "cute" solution say by using a sorting function or
> perhaps some arcane command unknown to mere mortals?
>
> Jack
>
>
- References:
- Sorting with Infinity
- From: Jack Goldberg <jackgold@math.lsa.umich.edu>
- Sorting with Infinity