Re: Comparison of functions
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Re: Comparison of functions

From: Adriano Varoli Piazza <moranar@alice.it>
Date: Sat Jul 30 2005 - 15:30:20 CEST

Adriano Varoli Piazza ha scritto:

> As far as I recall from Math Analysis, which I studied two months ago,
> you can't sort complex numbers. It makes no sense. The reason being
> (reading from my book), it's not possible to define an order that
> preserves the properties of arithmetical operations on complex numbers.
> So you can't order them, and you can't compare them.
>

Sorry, that should have been "you can't sort them, and you can't compare
them with greater than, lesser than, etc. Of course, using == will work.

But tell me, how do you think sort works if not with <, >, ==, <= and >=
? I'm really interested.

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Received on Thu Sep 29 17:15:30 2005