Re: Sorting coefficients
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- Subject: [mg124050] Re: Sorting coefficients
- From: "jf.alcover" <jf.alcover at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 05:19:49 -0500 (EST)
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On 6 jan, 10:15, Chris Young <c... at comcast.net> wrote: > I'm trying to get my points sorted first by rows first. But I'm having > trouble figuring out how to do the kind of double sorting I need with > Sort. SortBy seems very hard to figure out and I'm not sure if it's > what I need here. > > I've just got a hexagonal layout of point coordinates, with another one > on the origin, and I'm trying to sort everything from lower left to > upper right. I.e., the usual ordering of going through the bottom row > from left to right, then through the middle row from left to right, etc. > > Any help appreciated. > > Chris Young > c... at comcast.net > > In[1043]:= Prepend[ > Table[{Re, Im}[ E^(k (2 \[Pi])/6 I)] // Through, {k, 0, 5}], {0, 0}] > > Out[1043]= {{0, 0}, {1, 0}, {1/2, Sqrt[3]/2}, {-(1/2), Sqrt[3]/ > 2}, {-1, 0}, {-(1/2), -(Sqrt[3]/2)}, {1/2, -(Sqrt[3]/2)}} > > In[1046]:= Sort[%1043, #1[[2]] < #2[[2]] &] > > Out[1046]= {{1/2, -(Sqrt[3]/2)}, {-(1/2), -(Sqrt[3]/2)}, {-1, 0}, {1, > 0}, {0, 0}, {-(1/2), Sqrt[3]/2}, {1/2, Sqrt[3]/2}} > > In[1073]:= Sort[%1046, #1[[2]] < #2[[2]] &] > > Out[1073]= {{-(1/2), -(Sqrt[3]/2)}, {1/2, -(Sqrt[3]/2)}, {0, 0}, {1, > 0}, {-1, 0}, {1/2, Sqrt[3]/2}, {-(1/2), Sqrt[3]/2}} My suggestion : In[1]:= t=Prepend[Table[{Re,Im}[E^(k (2 \[Pi])/6 I)]//Through,{k, 0,5}],{0,0}]; In[2]:= myLess[{x1_,y1_},{x2_,y2_}]:=Which[y1<y2, True, y1>y2, False, True, Which[x1<x2, True, x1>x2, False, True, False]] In[3]:= Sort[t,myLess] Out[3]= {{-(1/2), -(Sqrt[3]/2)}, {1/2, -(Sqrt[3]/2)}, {-1, 0}, {0, 0}, {1, 0}, {-(1/2), Sqrt[3]/2}, {1/2, Sqrt[3]/2}} hth