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Re: error with sort [message #18454 is a reply to message #18447]

Mon, 10 January 2000 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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R.Bauer (R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de) writes:

> print,sort([1,1,1,1,1])

I'm pretty sure that no matter how you would
order the sort of these numbers, Reimer, you
would get the same answer. :-)

And, really, that's all these different numbers
are saying. It doesn't matter where you *start*
the sort, when values are the same, the order is
irrelevant. The SORT function is obviously selecting
a random number as the starting point of the sort.
(In other words, to sort something you pick a
number and then the next number is greater than
this number, or less than this number, etc. If the
number happens to be *equal* to the pick. Just
put it here, it's order doesn't matter. That's
what you are seeing in the pattern (or non-pattern)
you are detecting. SORTs are more efficient, in
general I think, when they use random numbers
to pick starting locations.

Cheers,

David

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		Re: error with sort By: David L. Keller on Wed, 12 January 2000 00:00
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		Re: error with sort By: Liam E. Gumley on Mon, 10 January 2000 00:00
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