Re: Sorting complex points
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- Subject: [mg55911] Re: Sorting complex points
- From: "Alan" <info at optioncity.REMOVETHIS.net>
- Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 03:56:47 -0400 (EDT)
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"OT" <montoz at iol.it> wrote in message news:d356km$ovn$1 at smc.vnet.net... > Hi all, > > I'm trying to sort lists of random complex points on the unit circle > using their angles as criterion to sort them: I mean, if > z=Cos[a]+I*Sin[a] and w=Cos[b]+I*Sin[b]( 0<=a,b<2*Pi ), > I want z<w if a<b; > > how can i do that? Take a list of points on the unit circle: pts = Table[E^(I Random[] ), {i, 1, 5}] Then Sort[pts, Arg[#1] < Arg[#2] &] alan