https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6948

Ben <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #8 from Ben <[email protected]> 2011-03-16 17:29:35 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> Can the "Invisible" sort key be used to solve the problem on this page:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita ?
> 
> Currently if you sort by Rank you see 1, 10, 100, 101 which isn't correct.
> Otherwise, if this is an unrelated problem should I file a separate bug 
> report?

just to add a +1 to [email protected]'s comment, I noticed the same bug here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Energy_densities_ignoring_external_components

sorting by Energy density by volume (MJ/L) gets you a couple of interesting
sequences, including
43.5, 5.6, 6.02, 72.4
75.1, 8.8, 83.8, 9
38.2, 4.633016x10^104, 40.8

I can see mishandling the exponential value, but am confused as to why it
didn't end up between 4 and 5, instead of 38 and 40. The ordering doesn't even
make sense. At first I thought it was just ignoring the decimal place, but that
doesn't even work for any but the first string I copied.

I'm no coder, so sorry, I can offer no suggestions as to fixes, but it does
appear to be a common thing with the sorting.

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