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Question: Sorting a vector: evaluation problem

Question:Sorting a vector: evaluation problem

aaa333 20 Maple 16
vector sort
October 22 2013
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I have a variable with some assumptions: assume(0<=W<=1).

Now, when I make a list and sort it, everything goes fine:

k := [W, (1/3)*W, (1/3)*W, (1/3)*W]:
sort(k, (a,b)->is(a>b))

I get [(1/3)W, (1/3)W, (1/3)W, W] as expected.

Now I try this:

k:= Vector[column]([W, (1/3)*W, (1/3)*W, (1/3)*W]) 
sort(k, (a,b)->is(a>b))

And Maple gets stuck on this computation. I have tried on both Windows and Linux, on several different computers.

Is there anything I'm doing wrong? Should I approach this problem another way? I need to perform some operations on vectors (or matrices, in general) so I would prefer to stick to them if possible. 

Thank you. 
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