[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #62485] sort does not sort

[Markus Mützel]

Update of bug #62485 (project octave):

                  Status:                    None => Invalid                
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #1:

Complex numbers aren't orderable per definition (see, e.g., [1]). To make it
possible to have a more-or-less consistent result of sorting them anyway,
additional rules must be applied (that will always break some of the rules
that would apply for orderable fields).

The additional rules that Octave has chosen to apply are documented in the
help string for `sort`:
> Sorting of complex entries is done first by magnitude (abs (z)) and for any
ties by phase angle (angle (z)).

That seems to be working as documented in your example.

Closing as invalid.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordered_field


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