Re: -> {"AX", "!D", "EX"}
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- Subject: [mg76127] Re: -> {"AX", "!D", "EX"}
- From: dimitris <dimmechan at yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 05:45:17 -0400 (EDT)
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PS
A song that describes perfectly Mathematica's Ordering (in some
advanced issues!)
Don't you agree?
=CF/=C7 Murray Eisenberg =DD=E3=F1=E1=F8=E5:
> The docs cited DO seem to say how strings are ordered: "as they would be
> in a dictionary....".
>
> Is "!" a "mathematical operator" or is it just a character in the
> examples at issue?
>
> With dictionary ordering, the primary key for sorting would be the first
> character. So none of this explains the discrepant behavior between "!"
> as a single character and "!" as the first character of a string.
>
> Szabolcs wrote:
> > Philipp wrote:
> >> Would anybody explain to me the Mathematica (5.2) canonical order.
> >> Specifically, why
> >>
> >> In[]:= Sort[{"AX", "!D", "EX"}]
> >> Out[]= {"AX", "!D", "EX"}
> >>
> >> while,
> >>
> >> In[]:= Sort[{"A", "!", "E"}]
> >> Out[]= {"!", "A", "E"}
> >>
> >> Is this a bug???
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Philipp.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > http://documents.wolfram.com/mathematica/book/section-A.3.9
> >
> > Most probably it has to do something with the "Mathematical operators
> > appear in order of decreasing precedence." part.
> > This behaviour is too consistent to be a bug (i.e. unintended
> > behaviour), but it is really confusing. The documentation only mentions
> > the ordering of single characters, but not how longer strings are
> > treated, and it seems that it doesn't work as most people would expect
> > it to.
> >
>
> --
> Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu
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- Re: Why Sort[{"AX", "!D", "EX"}] -> {"AX", "!D", "EX"} ?
- From: Szabolcs <szhorvat@gmail.com>
- Re: Why Sort[{"AX", "!D", "EX"}] -> {"AX", "!D", "EX"} ?