Re: -> {"AX", "!D", "EX"}
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- Subject: [mg76102] Re: -> {"AX", "!D", "EX"}
- From: "Szabolcs Horvát" <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 05:32:29 -0400 (EDT)
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It may be related to the fact that strings may contain any fancy 2D math expression. Try this: Sort[{"\!\(b\^2\)", "a"}] Szabolcs On 15/05/07, Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu> wrote: > Me, too! > > Szabolcs wrote: > > Murray Eisenberg wrote: > >> The docs cited DO seem to say how strings are ordered: "as they would > >> be in a dictionary....". > > > > Well, "as they would be in a dictionary" is a bit fuzzy, especially if > > the dictionary contains anything else than English words ... > > > > Some programs even sort differently based on the language settings of > > your operating system, and they do not always use single latin letters > > as atoms. > > > > Anyway, I am really curious about what motivated this decision about > > sorting. I hope that someone from WRI will explain it. > > > > -- > Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu > Mathematics & Statistics Dept. > Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) > University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) > 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 > Amherst, MA 01003-9305 >
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- Re: Why Sort[{"AX", "!D", "EX"}] -> {"AX", "!D", "EX"} ?
- From: Szabolcs <szhorvat@gmail.com>
- Re: Why Sort[{"AX", "!D", "EX"}] -> {"AX", "!D", "EX"} ?