Re: Sort with -Infinity fails
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg73894] Re: Sort with -Infinity fails
- From: "Norbert Marxer" <marxer at mec.li>
- Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 00:47:53 -0500 (EST)
- References: <es6d0l$rmr$1@smc.vnet.net>
On 1 Mrz., 12:21, Tom Aldenberg <Tom.Aldenb... at rivm.nl> wrote:
> Dear MathGroup,
>
> Minus Infinity (-Infinity) is smaller than -8, but Sort does not sort it =
as
> expected.
> Is there a Real minus Infinity?
>
> In[75]:=
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 -Infinity < -8
> Out[75]=
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 True
>
> In[76]:=
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Sort[{-Infinity, -8, 5}]
> Out[76]=
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 {-8, 5, -=E2=88=9E}
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom Aldenberg
>
>
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Hello
Sort uses by default canonical ordering (whatever this means with
respect to -Infinity).
Sort[{-Infinity, -8, 5}, Less]
will give what you want.
Best Regards
Norbert Marxer