The Sort command sorts the elements of X according to their numeric values.

The first parameter X is the data set (list or Array).

The options argument can contain one or more of the options shown below.

order=ascending or descending -- Indicates whether the elements of X should be sorted in the ascending or descending order. The default value is order=ascending.

unique=truefalse -- If this option is set to true, all multiple occurrences of elements from X will be removed. The default value is unique=false. Note that if this option is set to unique=true then all elements of X must be of type float.

Although the Sort command accepts non-numeric data, maple must be able to compute floating-point values for all elements in X. If the unique option is set to unique=true all elements in X must be of type numeric.

The Sort command creates a copy of the original data.