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Strange behavior of Sort

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• Subject: [mg12941] Strange behavior of Sort
• From: Edward Neuman <edneuman at siu.edu>
• Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 03:44:59 -0400
• Organization: Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

In Mathematica 3.0:

In[5]:=
li={1/Sqrt[2], 1, -Sqrt[2]};

In[7]:=
Sort[li]//InputForm

Out[7]//InputForm=
{1, 1/Sqrt[2], -Sqrt[2]}

Sort doesn't work properly on this list.

Edward Neuman

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