Suppose we want to choose a sorting algorithm with the best worst-case running time possible for the assumed input below. What sorting algorithm would you use? What would the running time of the algorithm be? Justify your answer. a) A list of $n$ local phone numbers. b) An array of $n$ grades from 0 to 100. c) An array of $n$ numbers, all of which are a power of 2.
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Radix sort is efficient for sorting strings or numbers with a fixed length, such as phone numbers. The running time of radix sort is O(kn), where k is the length of the longest number in the list. In the case of phone numbers, the length is fixed, so k would be a Show more…
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