HW6 Getting Sort to recognize scientific notation

Malcolm Greaves

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Mar 28, 2012, 1:10:14 AM3/28/12

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Hi all,

Does anyone know how to get (unix) sort to recognize scientific notation? I have a problem where sort thinks 3.66E-4 is larger than 0.461242.

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Malcolm Greaves

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Mar 28, 2012, 1:12:16 AM3/28/12

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Of course, I forgot to check the man pages first =P. If anyone's interested, use the -g flag (replace -n) to do numeric sorting with scientific notation too.

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Phil Brown

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Mar 28, 2012, 6:48:38 AM3/28/12

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Thanks for the tip! I had been working around this by formatting my output to 8 places after the decimal using
String.format("%.8f", pageRank)

Yilun Cui

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Mar 28, 2012, 1:11:16 AM3/28/12

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the trick is to have java not print it in scientific notation

Malcolm Greaves

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Mar 28, 2012, 12:34:58 PM3/28/12

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Or the -g flag.......

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