The Sort command sorts the elements of X according to their numeric values.

The first parameter X is the data set (typically an Array or a list).

The options argument can contain one or more of the options shown below.

order=ascending or descending -- Indicates whether the elements of X should be sorted in the ascending or descending order. The default value is order=ascending.

unique=truefalse -- If this option is set to true, all multiple occurrences of elements from X will be removed. The default value is unique=false. Note that if this option is set to unique=true then all elements of X must be of type float.

Although the Sort command accepts non-numeric data, maple must be able to compute floating-point values for all elements in X. If the unique option is set to unique=true all elements in X must be of type numeric.

The Sort command creates a copy of the original data.

$\mathrm{with}\left(\mathrm{Statistics}\right)\:$

$A≔\mathrm{Array}\left(\left[\sin \left(1\right)\,\sin \left(2.\right)\,\sin \left(1.\right)\,\sin \left(3.\right)\,\sin \left(5.\right)\,\sin \left(2.\right)\,\sin \left(3.\right)\,\sin \left(6.\right)\right]\right)$

$A≔\left[\begin{array}{cccccccc}\sin \left(1\right)& 0.9092974268& 0.8414709848& 0.1411200081& \mathrm{-0.9589242747}& 0.9092974268& 0.1411200081& \mathrm{-0.2794154982}\end{array}\right]$

$B≔\mathrm{Sort}\left(A\right)$

$B≔\left[\begin{array}{cccccccc}\mathrm{-0.9589242747}& \mathrm{-0.2794154982}& 0.1411200081& 0.1411200081& 0.8414709848& \sin \left(1\right)& 0.9092974268& 0.9092974268\end{array}\right]$

$\mathrm{evalf}\left(B\right)$

$\left[\begin{array}{cccccccc}\mathrm{-0.9589242747}& \mathrm{-0.2794154982}& 0.1411200081& 0.1411200081& 0.8414709848& 0.8414709848& 0.9092974268& 0.9092974268\end{array}\right]$

$\mathrm{Sort}\left(A\,\mathrm{order}=\mathrm{descending}\right)$

$\left[\begin{array}{cccccccc}0.9092974268& 0.9092974268& \sin \left(1\right)& 0.8414709848& 0.1411200081& 0.1411200081& \mathrm{-0.2794154982}& \mathrm{-0.9589242747}\end{array}\right]$

$B≔\mathrm{evalf}\left(A\right)$

$B≔\left[\begin{array}{cccccccc}0.8414709848& 0.9092974268& 0.8414709848& 0.1411200081& \mathrm{-0.9589242747}& 0.9092974268& 0.1411200081& \mathrm{-0.2794154982}\end{array}\right]$

$\mathrm{Sort}\left(B\,\mathrm{order}=\mathrm{descending}\,\mathrm{unique}\right)$

$\left[\begin{array}{ccccc}0.9092974268& 0.8414709848& 0.1411200081& \mathrm{-0.2794154982}& \mathrm{-0.9589242747}\end{array}\right]$

$l≔\left[\sin \left(1\right)\,\sin \left(2.\right)\,\sin \left(1.\right)\,\sin \left(3.\right)\,\sin \left(5.\right)\,\sin \left(2.\right)\,\sin \left(3.\right)\,\sin \left(6.\right)\right]$

$l≔\left[\sin \left(1\right)\,0.9092974268\,0.8414709848\,0.1411200081\,\mathrm{-0.9589242747}\,0.9092974268\,0.1411200081\,\mathrm{-0.2794154982}\right]$

$\mathrm{ll}≔\mathrm{Sort}\left(l\right)$

$\mathrm{ll}≔\left[\mathrm{-0.9589242747}\,\mathrm{-0.2794154982}\,0.1411200081\,0.1411200081\,0.8414709848\,\sin \left(1\right)\,0.9092974268\,0.9092974268\right]$

$\mathrm{evalf}\left(\mathrm{ll}\right)$

$\left[\mathrm{-0.9589242747}\,\mathrm{-0.2794154982}\,0.1411200081\,0.1411200081\,0.8414709848\,0.8414709848\,0.9092974268\,0.9092974268\right]$