Re: Strange behavior of Sort
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- Subject: [mg12976] Re: [mg12941] Strange behavior of Sort
- From: Sean Ross <seanross at worldnet.att.net>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 02:52:01 -0400
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Edward Neuman wrote:
>
> 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
What would you like it to do instead? I think that
{1,1/Sqrt[2],-Sqrt[2]} is in proper order from greatest to smallest
already.
- References:
- Strange behavior of Sort
- From: Edward Neuman <edneuman@siu.edu>
- Strange behavior of Sort