Subject: Re: I can't count, can someone help me with this?
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: current-users
Date: 03/01/2003 18:18:28 
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Peter Seebach wrote:

> $ sort -n
> -5
> 0
> 5
> ^D
>
> I get "0, -5, 5".
>
> I am almost sure that 0 is actually *between* -5 and 5.
>
> Is this a bug in sort, or a bug in me?

Looks like a bug in sort. Observe that "sort -Sn" works as expected.

Frederick