BUILT-IN MATHEMATICA SYMBOL
Sort
Sort[list]
sorts the elements of list into canonical order.
Sort[list, p]
sorts using the ordering function p.
- Sort by default orders integers, rational, and approximate real numbers by their numerical values.
- Sort orders complex numbers by their real parts, and in the event of a tie, by the absolute values of their imaginary parts.
- Sort orders symbols by their names, and in the event of a tie, by their contexts.
- Sort usually orders expressions by putting shorter ones first, and then comparing parts in a depth-first manner.
- Sort treats powers and products specially, ordering them to correspond to terms in a polynomial.
- Sort orders strings as in a dictionary, with uppercase versions of letters coming after lowercase ones. Sort places ordinary letters first, followed in order by script, Gothic, double-struck, Greek, and Hebrew. Mathematical operators appear in order of decreasing precedence.
- Sort[list, p] applies the function p to pairs of elements in list to determine whether they are in order. The default function p is OrderedQ[{#1, #2}]&.
- Sort can be used on expressions with any head, not only List.
Sort a list:
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Sort using Greater as the ordering function:
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Sort by comparing the second part of each element:
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