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Radix Sort Algorithm Explained

Radix sort is an integer sorting algorithm that sorts data by digit value. It performs multiple passes over the data, with one pass for each place value, starting from the least significant place. In each pass, the data is collected into buckets based on the current place value. After all passes, the data will be fully sorted from lowest to highest value. Radix sort has a linear runtime of O(n) in the best, worst, and average cases for sorting n elements.

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Radix Sort Algorithm Explained

Radix sort is an integer sorting algorithm that sorts data by digit value. It performs multiple passes over the data, with one pass for each place value, starting from the least significant place. In each pass, the data is collected into buckets based on the current place value. After all passes, the data will be fully sorted from lowest to highest value. Radix sort has a linear runtime of O(n) in the best, worst, and average cases for sorting n elements.

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Radix Sort Algorithm

Radix sort is one of the sorting algorithms used to sort a list of integer numbers in

order. In radix sort algorithm, a list of integer numbers will be sorted based on the

digits of individual numbers. Sorting is performed from least significant digit to the

most significant digit.

Radix sort algorithm requires the number of passes which are equal to the number of

digits present in the largest number among the list of numbers. For example, if the

largest number is a 3 digit number then that list is sorted with 3 passes.

Step by Step Process

The Radix sort algorithm is performed using the following steps...

• Step 1 - Define 10 queues each representing a bucket for each digit from 0 to 9.

• Step 2 - Consider the least significant digit of each number in the list which is to

be sorted.

• Step 3 - Insert each number into their respective queue based on the least

significant digit.

• Step 4 - Group all the numbers from queue 0 to queue 9 in the order they have

inserted into their respective queues.

• Step 5 - Repeat from step 3 based on the next least significant digit.

• Step 6 - Repeat from step 2 until all the numbers are grouped based on the most

significant digit.

Example
Complexity of the Radix Sort Algorithm

To sort an unsorted list with 'n' number of elements, Radix sort algorithm needs the

following complexities...

Worst Case : O(n)

Best Case : O(n)

Average Case : O(n)

Implementation of Radix Sort Algorithm using C Programming


Language
#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int getMax(int list[], int n) {


int mx = list[0];
int i;
for (i = 1; i < n; i++)
if (list[i] > mx)
mx = list[i];
return mx;
}

void countSort(int list[], int n, int exp) {


int output[n];
int i, count[10] = { 0 };

for (i = 0; i < n; i++)


count[(list[i] / exp) % 10]++;

for (i = 1; i < 10; i++)


count[i] += count[i - 1];

for (i = n - 1; i >= 0; i--) {


output[count[(list[i] / exp) % 10] - 1] = list[i];
count[(list[i] / exp) % 10]--;
}

for (i = 0; i < n; i++)


list[i] = output[i];
}

void radixsort(int list[], int n) {


int m = getMax(list, n);

int exp;
for (exp = 1; m / exp > 0; exp *= 10)
countSort(list, n, exp);
}

void print(int list[], int n) {


int i;
for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
printf("%d\t", list[i]);
}

int main()
{
int list[] = { 82, 901, 100, 12, 150, 77, 55, 23 };
int i, n = sizeof(list) / sizeof(list[0]);

printf("List of numbers before sort: \n");


for(i = 0; i<8; i++)
printf("%d\t", list[i] );

radixsort(list, n);

printf("\n\nList of numbers after sort: \n");


print(list, n);
printf("\n\n");
return 0;
}

Output

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