Re: Sort with -Infinity fails
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- Subject: [mg73850] Re: Sort with -Infinity fails
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 06:25:35 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
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- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Hi,
and
Sort[{-Infinity, -8, 5}, #1 < #2 &]
doen not help ?
Regards
Jens
Tom Aldenberg wrote:
> Dear MathGroup,
>
> Minus Infinity (-Infinity) is smaller than -8, but Sort does not sort it as
> expected.
> Is there a Real minus Infinity?
>
>
> In[75]:=
> -Infinity < -8
> Out[75]=
> True
>
> In[76]:=
> Sort[{-Infinity, -8, 5}]
> Out[76]=
> {-8, 5, -∞}
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom Aldenberg
>
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