Questions tagged [sorting]
Questions on the sorting/ordering functions of Mathematica (Sort, SortBy, Ordering, etc.).
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How to SortBy Min[Last]
I have a list of the form
{
{1, {3., ∞, ∞, ∞}},
{2, {1.,1., ∞, ∞}},
{3, {0.333333, 0.666667, ∞, ∞}}
}
and I would like to sort it by the minimal of the nested ...
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Sort and extract values in a nested list
I want to sort the following nested list of peak points by the y values while keeping the dimensions consistent.
I then want to extract the x value of the largest and second largest y values (if the ...
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Sorting a Collection of Lists by Comparing Different Parts
I am looking for a way to use Sort[] to sort a collection of lists by comparing different parts of these lists. For example, sorting by comparing the second part of ...
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list sorting task
I am trying to understand how to sort by multiple columns in Mathematica.
Here is a simple data set consisting of results of sports matches. Each element represents a game, and contains fields for ...
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Sorting a list according to the position of elements
I have a list of elements, which I want to sort according to the even/odd numbered positions of elements. Basically creating two lists out of one, respectively having elements placed at even/odd ...
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Find elements of array with largest absolute value
I am wondering how to do in Mathematica the following:
Given as an input a large array, I want to output a list of top $n$ entries with largest absolute value + their location within the array.
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Sort Data Sets by Lines/Neighbours
I have several sets of data which together yield Fig. 1. As can be seen from the colours of the dots, the data sets are mixed, but do obviously belong to several distinct lines. My question is:
How ...
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Using SortBy on a list of a list of a list
I have quite a typical physics problem at hand, I want the eigenvalues and -vectors of a Hamiltonian matrix. I have a parameter s, which I vary in 1000 steps and for each step I want my H matrix to be ...
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Sorting sequences independent of color
I have two lists $R$ and $B$ of numbers written in red and blue. I would like to join those two lists and reorder them in increasing order to get a visual feeling of how both sequences are distributed....
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Canonical ordering of days of week
The entities representing the days of the week sort alphabetically:
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Sort Dataset by Row index after GroupBy
I would like to sort my Dataset by its row index. Unlike an ordinary column, this index does not have a name.
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Sort Associations by its Values (which are nested lists)
I have associations where the values are nested lists:
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Ordering a list of integers
I have a list of integers which I am trying to order in the following way:
remove all zeros from the list
sort in increasing order of absolute value
put positive values before negative values
I.e. ...
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Group symbols by a given partition of the occuring symbols
I have following expression
$$-3 b_{\sigma _d}-3 b_{\sigma _v}-b-b_2+2 j-2 j_2-2 j_3+2 j_6+12$$
Mathematica input
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Sorting a list into “all possible ways” - sorting with incomplete information
Familiar example of sorting objects
I have a list of $n$ "vectors" $\{x^{(1)},...,x^{(n)}\}$ of form $
x^{(i)}=\sum_{j=1}^m c_j^{(i)}x_j,i=1\dots n$, where $c_j^{(i)}$ are
nonnegative ...
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Derivative of Sort
I want to calculate gradient of Sort[{x1,x2,x3,x4}] but it seems like I'm getting a wrong answer. Specifically ...
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How to show just one function from a stored plot?
Q:
Is there a general way to remove particular functions from a previously stored call to a plot function?
Here is a specific example:
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Sorting a list according to some pre-specified rules
Given a list such as
{12,9,3,42,30,10,11,1,2}
I would like to place only the multiples of 3 in the natural order without changing the order of the other ...
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Sort a list of lists by increasing order of elements [closed]
What is the quickest way to sort a list of lists of integers, such that the first sorting criterion is the first element of the list, the next is the second element of the list and so on?
E.g. The ...
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Sorting polynomials based on their y value and finding their intersection
I've got the following list of polynomials,
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Lowest Magnitude Eigenvalues of Large Sparse Matrices
I am trying to find the first three lowest eigenvalues of large sparse matrices of size range $10^3 - 10^5$. The matrices depend on some parameter $x$, so I first construct the matrices and then use ...
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Why does Sin[b-a] simplify to -Sin[a-b]?
As I understand it, Mathematica often uses alphabetical order when simplifying expressions. For example, b-a simplifies to -a+b.
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How to sort the “do” output?
So I have function (FindCoefficients) that iterates through some values to find the maximum value for a function. It is much quicker to hold the non-linear values constant and do a find maximum for ...
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Sorting upon the first element of a nested list and show that as numerical values
I wish to sort the below list upon the first elements:
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how to sort an expression with descending coefficients?
I have an expression for example
psi = 0.24 FF1[0] FF2[1] FF3[-1] + 0.23 FF1[0] FF2[0] FF3[1] + 0.5 FF1[1] FF2[0] FF3[1] + 0.25 FF1[1] FF2[1] FF3[1]
I wonder how ...
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Sorting each column in a nested list contained in an association
I have an Association which contains three arrays 200x1000x2.
Each row m of a matrix denotes a different set of parameters, while
each column n contains the outcomes of the function for a specific ...
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AlphabeticSort of Chinese character is not working now
I want to sort strings of chinese characters. I used to use below code
list={"大家","早上","好"};
AlphabeticSort[list, Entity["Language", "ChineseMandarin"]]
And it ...
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ls Ordering[Ordering[list]] optimal?
Given a list list with unique elements, the task is to replace each element by its position in Sort[list]. For example,
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How can I animate the sorting by Sort, BarChart and Animate? [duplicate]
I try to make an animation of sorting like this but something goes wrong.
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Sort a list by elements of another list
I know there are a plenty of other questions here which appear to be similar, however I did not found anything which could give me a hint.
I have two lists:
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Terse Method to Swap Lowest for Highest?
I have built a solution to swap the lowest values with the highest values in a list.
With
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Sort with assumptions
I have a list which looks like this
list = {0, Subscript[x,7], -Subscript[x,3]-Subscript[x,9], -Subscript[x,9]};
and all the $x_i$'s are positive semidefinite (i....
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Inconsistency in SortBy [duplicate]
I have a list of data, I tried to SortBy it in two equivalent way, but the result is different.
The data variable is something ...
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Sort the data in the given way
Consider the data
data = {{x1,y1,z1},{x2,y2,z2},{x3,y3,z3},{x4,y4,z4},{x5,y5,z5},{x6,y6,z6},...}
with N rows.
It can be divided into N/3 sets of 3 rows. I would ...
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how to sort the expression not based on the Heads in Times?
Is there any way i can sort the following expression ?
a[k, l] b[i, j]
so that i would have:
b[i, j] a[k,l]
Mathematica ...
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Sorting of a list with different lengths
I have a list of disordered numbers. They are collected in different lists. I mean
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Outputting expressions in the order in which they're entered
Background
For display purposes, I sometimes find it desirable to defeat Mathematica's canonical ordering of variables, and instead have it output terms in the order in which I type them. E.g., ...
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how to sort a list without build-in function
I want to sort a list like below.Without using the build-in function so I tried this:
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Inserting an integer into a sorted list
I'm wondering if inserting an integer into a sorted list (in a way that the list remains sorted) can be performed in Mathematica in some fancy way in $\log(N)$ time?..
The question was asked here, ...
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What is the Alphabetical Inequality Test?
Mathematica can sort {"b","d","a","c"} into {"a","b","c","d"} with a simple application of ...
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How can I order this list on mathematica?
This is my list
Matrix = {{1, -2, 3, -4}, {{a, b}, {f, e}, {a, b}, {f, e}}}
I want to order the columns in ascending order depending on the values on the first ...
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OrderedQ with string arguments
I don't find these results consistent:
OrderedQ[{"a", "A"}]
True
OrderedQ[{"a2", "A1"}]
False
Is there any ...
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How to assume lexicographical ordering
Suppose I have functions which depends on the symbols $c[I]$, where $I$ is some subset of $\{1,2,...,n\}$.
For example, $$f = c[1] + c[1,2,3] + c[1,2],$$ $$g = c[2] + c[2,1],$$
Code:
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Better way to sort course grades
I use the following code to create a histogram of grades. Grades are provided as a List of strings such as "A-", "D+", "E" (don't ask), etc. The +/- substitution hack is necessary to sort the grades ...
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In what order does Combinatorica's SetPartitions function list the partitions of a set?
For example,
Needs["Combinatorica`"]
n = 4;
partitions = SetPartitions[Range[n]];
Table[Print[partitions[[i]]], {i, 1, BellB[n]}]
generates
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Nested sorting of lists
I have the following list representing a custom set of cards:
Each card is represented by a list of two elements, like this: {heart,9}
Using the code:
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