Booelan matrices for ordering and sorting
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- Subject: [mg124147] Booelan matrices for ordering and sorting
- From: Chris Young <cy56 at comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:20:49 -0500 (EST)
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Just to make sure I understood how Sort was using its ordering function, I created a boolean matrix for the sorting. Are ordering matrices always upper triangular? Could have saved some time right there. In that case, all you have to do is enter the right size upper triangular booean matrix, right down the order you want to sort into, and you're done. Wish I had a more concise way of picking out the matrix element. I had trouble using Extract and with mapping Position onto the elements. Come to think of it, maybe if I give the whole sorted list, I don't need the boolean matrix. It may still be needed if I'm sorting lists longer or shorter than the sorted prototype though (?). A picture and a notebook are at: http://home.comcast.net/~cy56/OrderMatrix.png http://home.comcast.net/~cy56/OrderMatrix.nb Returns true if the elements are in correct order as they occur in the list: In[835]:= in\[HorizontalLine]order[e1_, e2_] := Module[ {sorted}, sorted = {1, 2, a, b, A, B}; { {T, T, T, T, T, T}, {F, T, T, T, T, T}, {F, F, T, T, T, T}, {F, F, F, T, T, T}, {F, F, F, F, T, T}, {F, F, F, F, F, T} } \ [[Position[sorted, e1][[1, 1]], Position[sorted, e2][[1, 1]]]] ] In[836]:= in\[HorizontalLine]order[#1, #2] & @@@ {{1, b}, {b, 2}, {2, A}, {A, B}, {B, a}} Out[836]= {True, False, True, True, False} Chris Young cy56 at comcast.net
