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Radix Sorting
IESL College of Engineering
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Group Members
P.D. BulathsinhalaW.N.S. FernandoK.K.H. Rangana
Rajeswaran IndravarmanM.K.H. Gunasekara
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Introduction
• Radix sort is non comparative sorting method
• Two classifications of radix sorts are least significant digit (LSD) radix sorts and most significant digit (MSD) radix sorts.
• LSD radix sorts process the integer representations starting from the least digit and move towards the most significant digit. MSD radix sorts work the other way around. 3
Introduction
• Radix sort is generalization of bucket sort.• It uses several passes of bucket sort.
• Radix sort is stable and fast.
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Simulation
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Simulation
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Simulation
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Simulation
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All the Digits are checked
144 173 222 256 326 478 548 721 753 875
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Bucket Sort
ALGORITHM
1.Keep an array count of size m(Maximum range of output)2.Repeat following steps till input is exhausteda) Read input number as x.b) Increment count [x] by 13.Repeat the following for i=0 to mc) Assign j to zerod) While count [ i ] is not equal to zero do i) a[ j ] = I and increment j ii) Decrement count[ i ]4.Return the sorted elements stored in array a.
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Pseudo code for radix sort
ALGORITHM
1. Create an array a[ 0…..n-1] elements.2. Call bucket sort repeatedly on least to most significant digit of each
element as the key.3. Return the sorted array.
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C code for radix sort void radixsort(int *a, int n){ int i, b[MAX], m = a[0], exp = 1; for (i = 1; i < n; i++) { if (a[i] > m) m = a[i]; } while (m / exp > 0) { int bucket[10] = { 0 }; for (i = 0; i < n; i++) bucket[(a[i] / exp) % 10]++; for (i = 1; i < 10; i++) bucket[i] += bucket[i - 1]; for (i = n - 1; i >= 0; i--) b[--bucket[(a[i] / exp) % 10]] = a[i]; for (i = 0; i < n; i++) a[i] = b[i]; exp *= 10;
#if def SHOWPASS printf("\nPASS : "); print(a, n); #endif }}
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Iterative version of using queues• We can use queues as buckets
ALGORITHM
1. The integers are enqueued into an array of ten separate queues based on their digits from right to left.
2. The queues are dequeued back into an array of integers, in increasing order.
3. Iterate this method till the last left digit.
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Example23 69 72 85 90 35 58 95 48
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Example90 72 23 85 35 95 58 48 69
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Recursive Version - Inefficient
• Each bucket is dynamically allocated and resized as needed
• This runs the risk of serious memory fragmentation
• Degrade performances.
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String variation
• The keys are strings of d characters each
• We represent each key by a d-tuple of integers, where is the ASCII (8-bit integer) or Unicode (16-bit integer) representation of the i-th character and apply radix sort.
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Analysis
• Each pass over n d-digit numbers and k base keys then takes time O(n+k). (Assuming counting sort is used for each pass.)
• There are d passes, so the total time for radix sort is O(d (n+k)).
• When d is a constant and total run time = O(n)
• radix sort runs in linear time. 18
Comparison
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Merge sort
Radix sort
sorted
the overall relation between input size and execution time (in seconds).
Applications
• Mostly used in parallel computing
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Questions
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THANK YOU
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