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Subject: Re: O(n) for radix/bucket/counting sort is something of a misnomer

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 16:53:10 05/11/01

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On May 11, 2001 at 13:45:33, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On May 11, 2001 at 03:33:07, David Rasmussen wrote:
>[snip]
>>>So all of them are sorted in O(n) then!
>>>
>>
>>I know. Radix Sort is the same.
>
>O(n) is not generally used to describe bucket sorting, radix sorting and the
>like anymore.  That's because keysize is so important.
>
>Generally, it is O(n*log(keysize/keybucketsize))
>

I know. But I didn't want to go into that, as it was irrelevant for my
argumentation.



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