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Radix Sort (Implementation)

Radix Sort (Implementation)

Here, I'll discuss the code of the radix sort algorithm. (Reading time: 4 minutes)

Radix sort uses both counting sort and bucket sort. To implement radix sort, we need to have a radixSort function that receives the array we want to sort.

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function radixSort(array) {
}

Right now, we need to store the largest digit of the maximum number in the given array, initialize a digit bucket list where we store the values, and the current index.

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function radixSort(array) {
  const max = Math.max(...array).toString().length;
  let digitBuckets = [];
  let index = 0;
}

Next, we want to initialize a bucket for every digit that’s possible. Let’s say that we have the array [8, 23, 12223, 901, 2990, 12] that we want to sort. Now, max would be equal to 5, as the length of the ...

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