Sharp EL-9900 operation manual Special List Operations, Calculations using the OPE menu functions

Chapter 9: List Features

4. Special List Operations

This calculator has three list calculation menus: OPE, MATH and L_DATA.

* In the Basic mode, L1 to L6 (list names) can be accessed from the LIST menu.

Calculations using the OPE menu functions

1 sortA( sortA(list name)

Sorts lists in ascending order.

Example

•Store list {2, 7, 4} in L1, and sort L1 in ascending order.

2 sortD( sortD(list name)

Sorts lists in descending order.

Example

•Sort the above list L1 in descending order.

Note: sortA(list name 1, subordinate list name 1,...)

If two or more lists are entered separated by commas, a sort is performed on the first list as a key, and the following lists are sorted in the order corresponding to the elements in first list (key list).

Example

•Store lists {2, 7, 4} and {-3, -4, -1} in L1 and L2 respectively, and sort L1 and L2 in ascend- ing order using list L1 as a key list.

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