Comparison of functions

Adriano Varoli Piazza moranar at alice.it
Sat Jul 30 09:30:20 EDT 2005


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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