Time for action – sorting complex numbers

We will create an array of complex numbers and sort it. Perform the following steps to do so:

1. Generate five random numbers for the real part of the complex numbers and five numbers for the imaginary part. Seed the random generator to 42.

   np.random.seed(42)
   complex_numbers = np.random.random(5) + 1j * np.random.random(5)
   print "Complex numbers\n", complex_numbers

2. Call the sort_complex function to sort the complex numbers we generated in the previous step.

   print "Sorted\n", np.sort_complex(complex_numbers)

   The sorted numbers would be shown as follows:

   Sorted
   [ 0.39342751+0.34955771j  0.40597665+0.77477433j  0.41516850+0.26221878j
     0.86631422+0.74612422j  0.92293095+0.81335691j]
   

What just happened?

We generated random complex numbers and sorted them using the sort_complex function (see sortcomplex.py).

import numpy as np

np.random.seed(42)
complex_numbers = np.random.random(5) + 1j * np.random.random(5)
print "Complex numbers\n", complex_numbers

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