in reply to Re: ASCII Woe
in thread ASCII Woe

That’s a nice theory, except then the positive numbers will be missorted largest-to-smallest.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re^3: ASCII Woe
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 03, 2006 at 21:58 UTC
    Would you believe "convert to two's complement and sort"?

    I was just pointing out (perhaps too indirectly) that its more complicated that merely getting "+" and "-" in the right order. The direction of sort is differnt for +ve and -ve numbers.
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