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Why radix sort is designed separately as it uses count sort within it and has same complexity also.

11th Dec 2017, 5:39 AM
Aman gautam
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I think Countingsort is pretty bad if you have lots of differrent values. If you try to sort a million values that are all different, you will need an array with size a million to run counting sort on it. Radixsort only needs a handful of different buckets (typically 2 or 10).
11th Dec 2017, 6:31 AM
Schindlabua
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ya
4th Jan 2018, 11:39 AM
prashant
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