Sort
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- Subject: [mg19152] Sort
- From: "Hermann Meier" <hmeier at webshuttle.ch>
- Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 23:58:54 -0400
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- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Sort is not reliable. Try the following (Mathematica Version 4):
In[1]:=
Sort[{0, -Sqrt[2], 5}]
Out[1]=
{0, 5, -Sqrt[2]}
In[2]:=
Sort[{0., -Sqrt[2], 5}]
Out[2]=
{0., 5, -Sqrt[2]}
One has to apply N to the list to get the correct result:
In[3]:=
Sort[N[{0., -Sqrt[2], 5}]]
Out[3]=
{-1.414213562, 0., 5.}
HM
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