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Re: Symmetrizing function arguments

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  • Subject: [mg127626] Re: Symmetrizing function arguments
  • From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma at 12000.org>
  • Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 03:16:45 -0400 (EDT)
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On 8/7/2012 2:04 AM, Hauke Reddmann wrote:

> g[a_,b_,c_]:=If[b>c,If[a>c,If[a>b,G[a,b,c],g[b,a,c]],g[c,b,a]],g[a,c,b]];

why not simply use Sort, that is what you are doing above?

You can defined your G to take a list as in {a_,b_,c_} from Sort
or use Sequence to splice the result from Sort before calling G.

Here is one example:

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G[{a_, b_, c_}] := Print["a=", a, " b=", b, " c=", c]
g[a_, b_, c_] := G[Sort[{a, b, c}, #1 > #2 &]]
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And another using Sequnece, so you do not need to change
G defintion

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G[a_, b_, c_] := Print["a=", a, " b=", b, " c=", c]
g[a_, b_, c_] := G[Sequence @@ Sort[{a, b, c}, #1 > #2 &]]
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--Nasser



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