sort

Gong Cheng <[email protected]> Thu, 1 May 2003 22:36:29 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.textutils.bugs
Message-ID <Pine.A41.4.44.0305012234570.78716-100000@dante27.u.washington.edu>
sort -n cannot recognize scientific notation, e.g.
3e-4
4e-5

it will say 4e-5 is bigger because it cannot recognize scientific notation