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Re: question 2

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• Subject: [mg75854] Re: question 2
• From: Szabolcs <szhorvat at gmail.com>
• Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 03:01:08 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: University of Bergen
• References: <200705110930.FAA06120@smc.vnet.net> <f21gav$7jv$1@smc.vnet.net>

Chris Chiasson wrote:
> Expressions with heads that have the Attribute Orderless are
> automatically sorted. In this case, I think the culprit is Plus.
> 
> On 5/11/07, dimitris <dimmechan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> The ordering has to do with the letters?
>> That is,
>> First "e" then "o" in f1, and "x" first and
>> then "y" in f2 rather than with the order
>> of 4 and 8?

It seems that Plus is treated in a special way, though only Times and 
Power are mentioned in the documentation.

http://documents.wolfram.com/mathematica/book/section-A.3.9

In[1]:=
Attributes[f]=Attributes[Plus]

Out[1]=
{Flat,Listable,NumericFunction,OneIdentity,Orderless,Protected}

In[2]:=
OrderedQ[{f[2,a],f[1,b]}]

Out[2]=
False

In[3]:=
OrderedQ[{Plus[2,a],Plus[1,b]}]

Out[3]=
True
True

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  • question 2
    • From: dimitris <dimmechan@yahoo.com>