Bucket Sort:
Like Quicksort and insertion sort, there is another sort called Bucket sort. Bucket sort assumes that the input is drawn from a uniform distribution. Bucket sort runs in linear time on average, 0(n). It considers that the input is generated by a random process that distributes elements uniformly over the interval [0, 1].
Bucket sort works as follows:
- Set up an array of initially empty buckets
- Go over the original array, putting each object in its bucket.
- Sort each non-empty bucket.
- Visit the buckets in order and put all elements back into the original array.
Suppose we need to sort an array of positive integers.
A= {3,4,11,0,2,8,5,9,1,5,6,2,8,0,2,4,1,3,10,4,7,9}.
A bucket sort works as follows: create an array of size 11. Then, go through the input array and place integer 3 into a second array at index 3, integer 11 at index 11, and so on. We will end up with a sorted list in the second array.
We start with an array of 11 counters set to zero.
Array A:
Moving through the array, we increment counters:
Array B:
Next, we simply read off the number of each occurrence:
0,0,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,4,4,4,5,5,6,7,8,8,9,9,10,11
The code of Bucket sort in C is given below:
Output:
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We can say Bucket sort is asymptotically fast (O(n) when the distribution is uniform). It is simple to code and suitable for a rough sort.
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