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> I don't understand why you would want the value that falls between
> 1.1 and 1.2 (1.11) to be sorted after 1.5.
You are interperting these as points on the number line, but sometimes people use this notation to reflect sequences. So 1.11 is the 11th item rather than a number between 1.1 and 1.2.
HTH
Mark Saltzman, Assistant Director
Information Systems, University of Wisconsin-Extension
432 North Lake Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1498
TEL: 608.263.3084 / FAX: 608.262.2343
Received on Mon Jan 22 1996 - 09:14:14 CST
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