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Re: SortBy for multiple key sorts

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• Subject: [mg124095] Re: SortBy for multiple key sorts
• From: Christopher Young <cy56 at comcast.net>
• Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 04:29:43 -0500 (EST)
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On Jan 6, 2012, at 12:21 PM, Bob Hanlon wrote:

> pts = {{0, 2}, {1, 2}, {2, 2}, {4, 1}, {3, 1}, {6, 1}, {5, 1}, {7, 0}, {-1,
>    0}};
>
> sortByYthenX = SortBy[pts, {Min[#[[2]]] &, Min[#[[1]]] &}]
>
> {{-1, 0}, {7, 0}, {3, 1}, {4, 1}, {5, 1}, {6, 1}, {0, 2}, {1, 2}, {2, 2}}
>
> The Min isn't doing anything useful
>
> sortByYthenX ==
> SortBy[pts, {#[[2]], #[[1]]} &] ==
> SortBy[pts, {Last, First}] ==
> Reverse /@ Sort[Reverse /@ pts]
>
> True


Except that SortBy by default won't order irrationals except by the depth of their trees, or something like that. The normal expectation is that an irrational would be evaluated to machine precision, I would think.

In[83]:= SortBy[P, {#[[2]], #[[1]]} &]

Out[83]= {{-1, 0}, {0, 0}, {1, 0}, {-(1/2), -(Sqrt[3]/2)}, {1/2, -(Sqrt[3]/2)}, {-(1/2), Sqrt[3]/2}, {1/2, Sqrt[3]/2}}

To get the correcting sorting, rows across, going upwards from the bottom row, I have to take numerical evaluations:

In[84]:= SortBy[P, N@{#[[2]], #[[1]]} &]

Out[84]= {{-(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}}

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    • From: Chris Young <cy56@comcast.net>