Sorting based on `string` type. Problems when distance is very small value ('5.55555E-6')

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Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search for Sparse Data in Python!

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Open JoanFM opened 3 years ago

JoanFM commented 3 years ago

We have observed some weird behavior seeing small distances at the end of the list of closest matches.

I believe the problem is that the distances are returned as string types and then the sorting does not work

JoanFM commented 3 years ago

Problem appears when keys indexed are of type str