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Re: Odd ordering of results?

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  • Subject: [mg99569] Re: Odd ordering of results?
  • From: mark mcclure <mcmcclur at unca.edu>
  • Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 00:15:36 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <gtudhr$its$1@smc.vnet.net>

On May 7, 6:35 am, AES <sieg... at stanford.edu> wrote:
> What puzzles me -- not a problem, just curious -- is the _order_ in
> which these rules [... to Solve ...] appear.
>
> Odd . . .  (seems like the natural thing would be to order the list on
> the left side of the en-><stuff> terms, getting e2 to e7 in either case)

Well, the results are not sorted in any canonical sense.
You can see this by executing:
Sort[waveSolns[[1]]]

Presumably, they appear in the order that the algorithm
produces them and there's no reason to expect that this
order might look natural.

Mark McClure


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