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Re: sorting?
Posted:
Jan 26, 2013 4:58 PM
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Hi,
> I have a large list of simple numerical lists, and I want to sort it
> using two criteria. in the simplest case, suppose the sublists are of
> length two, and that my first criterion is the quotient of part one
> by part two, and my second criterion is the size of part two (no
> zeros in part 2. I want to sort using the first criterion, and then
> break the ties using the second one. So for example if I had
> lalista={{0,5},{8,8},{2,2},{3,5},{1,3},{3,9}}, the sorting should
> return
>
> {{8,8},{2,2},{3,5},{3,9},{1,3},{0,5}}
>
> Of course this can be done, but I wonder if it is a way to make this
> only with native Mathematica tools (wich is always far more
> efficient).
>
I think you are looking for SortBy, which can be given a list of pure
functions to define the sorting, e.g. like this (the minus signs reverse
the sorting so I get what you want, it might need adoption depending on
what you really want...):
SortBy[lalista, {-#[[1]]/#[[2]] &, -#[[2]] &}]
hth,
albert
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