Questions tagged [sorting]
Questions on the sorting/ordering functions of Mathematica (Sort, SortBy, Ordering, etc.).
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Sorting exponential numbers
I want to sort some exponential numbers like {2^2,3^3,4^2} and i want The result {2^2,4^2,3^3}.
But Mathematica Sort function apply's the powers in the result and return's {4,16,27}.
How can i get the ...
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How to sort a distance matrix in mathematica
I have the following code which results in the heatmap shown:
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Unique matrix ID and fast checking
I have the following problem :
I have a programm which can generate a lot of 3x3 matrices whose elements take integer values in [-3;3], example :{{1,2,3},{-3,0,-2},{1,1,1}}.
Each time my programm ...
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Sorting a sparse matrix so that non-empty rows place on top
I have a $n$ by $2$ matrix that has binary values(0,1) as its entry. For example
m={{1,Null},{Null,0},{Null,Null},{0,0},{1,0},{0,1}}
I want it to be sorted ...
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Sort Stocks by MarketCap
If I correctly understand, here I have all the existing companies listed in every market and identified by each real name:
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Why doesn't Sort work in this case ? (Only numerical values)
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I want to interpolate a complicated symmetric function f of 2 variables x and y defined by some numerical integral involving Bessel functions. Since computing the integral itself is a bit ...
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Help in modifying my code
In my code, I want to plot (Dis[t]). The problem is some functions containing in the code do not work well if there are variables in the form of symbols, such as "Sort" "NMaximize" functions.
I want ...
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Preventing mathematica from evaluating “Sort” function, except in the case of numerical values
Say I want to sort the eigenvalues E1, E2, and E3 using "Greater" as following:
{EA, EB} = Sort[{Chop[E1], Chop[E2], Chop[E3]}, Greater][[{1, 2}]];
But I want ...
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“Greater” function gives me wrong order
When I try to sort the eigenvalues of the matrix (Rho) the results seems to be in the wrong order
What is wrong with my code?
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Adding up a list of rules
Here's the problem: I take a count of a count, so that I end up with a list in this format:
Table[Counts@Counts@Join[dKm[[i]], Pick[data1, ccKMedoid, i]], {i, 5}]
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Does Mathematica have an order relationship for lists, or a general ordering relation?
{1, 2} < {3, 4} doesn't seem to work, but Sort[{{3, 4}, {1, 2}}] yields {{1, 2}, {3, 4}}. ...
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Faster way to find longest chain of inequalities
I have a list of algebraic expression, all variables are positive, some of them have a specific size relationship.
Such as:
$\frac{(a b+a c+b c)^2}{a+b+c}\leq \frac{1}{3} (a+b+c) (a b+a c+b c)\leq \...
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Arrange exceptions in a list by some criteria
I have some dataset, which is supposed to have $30000$ in the last column, and I want to find the elements that break this, and arrange them numerically while mantaining the index. What I'm currently ...
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SortBy without final cannonical ordering
How can I SortBy a list without final cannonical ordering? E.g. SortBy[{9, 1, 2, 5, 3, 7}, # Boole[# >= 6] & ] returns <...
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Fast way of re-ordering list
I have a list which at each iteration of my algorithm is being modified. What I want to do is to find the elements that satisfy certain criterion (below it's simply being above the neighborhood ...
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How can we compare two strings?
In Python, you can do this:
"ab" > "ac"
which returns False.
In Mathematica, it doesn't evaluate.
But why? These are ...
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How to group points based on mesh primitive membership
As a simple example of what I want to do, let's say I have a Voronoi mesh in a $10\times10$ area with $10$ random "seed points":
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SortBy first element then second element, and so on?
SortBy can sort list by first element easily like so:
SortBy[{{1, 6}, {1, 2, 8}, {2}}, First]
and the result is:
{{1, 6}, {...
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Pick out two related elements from a list using criterion
Suppose I have a list:
$lst= \{\{k_1, g_1\},\{k_2,g_2\},...,\{k_{max},g_{max}\},...,\{k_n,g_n\}\}$
Here $\{k_{max},g_{max}\}$ is a special element, in which $g_{max}$ is the maximum of all $g_{i}$
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Matching list of eigenvalues and eigenvectors and removing negative values [closed]
I Have a matrix M (14x14) dimension in terms of variable k. Due to the complexity I wish to diagonalize M numerically as I can't symbolically.
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How to separate and re-order a list of points?
Suppose that we have a list of points. By plotting them we find two curves but the points are in a sequence of first fixing $x$ and then increasing $y$, next fixing $x+dx$ and then increasing $y$ and ...
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Canonical order for expressions that applied in Sort? [duplicate]
Sort[list] sorts the elements of list into canonical order.
As an example for sorting expressions: Sort[{y, x^2, x + y, y^3}] ...
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Sorting list on multiple criteria based on means of subgroups
I have a set of records where each record is for a particular item. An item is a member of a particular subgroup and a subgroup is a member of a particular group. One item is always a member of a ...
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How do I order the solution of Solve?
How can I order the solutions of Solve from the one with the smallest real part to the one with the greatest real part?
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How to sort Dataset where each row include a sequence of strings and integers
I got this type of data :
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How to SortBy Min[Last]
I have a list of the form
{
{1, {3., ā, ā, ā}},
{2, {1.,1., ā, ā}},
{3, {0.333333, 0.666667, ā, ā}}
}
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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