Greater & Less Than

[anarky]

I only skimmed over all the code posted here, but may I suggest using an array, also. But introduce letters.

Correct me if I'm wrong but smart use of the SWAP command may be an idea.

[na_th_an]

Who knows? We still don't know what the guy wants to do.

[anarky]

I do. except I don't know the best way around it.

It's essentially a card shuffler. But the only way I can think of how to do it is using a formula similar to 1=14...

Thus:
1 14 27 40 Row 1
2 15 28 41 Row 2
3 16 29 42 Row 3
4 17 30 43 Row 4
5 18 31 44 Row 5
6 19 32 45 Row 6
7 20 33 46 Row 7
8 21 34 47 Row 8
9 22 35 48 Row 9
10 23 36 49 Row 10
11 24 37 50 Row 11
12 25 38 51 Row 12
13 26 39 52 Row 13
...where row 13 is higher in value than row 12, yet 51 > 13.

See where I'm heading?
He's not working on absolute values. He's working on the value per row.

I hope this is what you're after...

[na_th_an]

So he has 52 values and has to arrange them in that order? Or do you want a formula which, given a value, tells you in which row it is?

In such case, "(value MOD 13) + 1" will give you what you are looking for...

I still don't get it.

[anarky]

Something like that, I think.

[Agamemnus]

Ummmm ok for the first post, what he says is this:

1) He has a set of numbers from 1 to 52, although he doesn't tell us how many, if there are duplicates, how they are generated, etc..

2) Then he wants it to be sorted into sets of 4 numbers each, where each set has all the numbers greater than the previous set. Except the problem is that this is not possible to achieve all the time.

...Unless (as a basic example, there are others, but this is the base):

* the quantity of the number set is divisible by 4.
* the numbers go from 1, 1+1, 1+2, 1+3... to X, where X is the quantity of the set.