@Arun: Look up "Radix sort" and then read the comments in the code.

Dave


On Aug 3, 4:23 am, Arun Vishwanathan <[email protected]> wrote:
> yes dave it wud be better if u cud post an explanation of what u r doing in
> each step..thanks
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 6:51 AM, payel roy <[email protected]> wrote:
> > @Dave,
> > Can you please explain the algo? It's getting very difficult to understand
> > the code ..
>
> > On 3 August 2011 01:14, Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> @Pankaj: Assuming generously that by N^2 you mean N*N instead of N
> >> exclusive-or 2, your very first statement is already O(N^2), as it
> >> will take that long just to set the array to zero.
>
> >> Here is a radix sort to sort an array x[N] containing values from 1 to
> >> N*N in O(N):
>
> >> int a[N], b[N], i;
> >> // initialize and tally occurrences of first radix-N digit of x[i]-1:
> >> for( i = 0 ; i < N ; ++i )
> >>    a[i] = 0;
> >> for( i = 0 ; i < N ; ++i )
> >>    a[(x[i]-1)/N]++;
> >> // compute starting point for each radix digit:
> >> a[N-1] = N - a[N-1];
> >> for( i = N-2 ; N >= 0 ; --i )
> >>    a[i] = a[i+1] - a[i];
> >> // move numbers from array x to temp array b:
> >> for( i = 0 ; i < N ; ++i )
> >>    b[a[(x[i]-1)/N]++] = x[i];
>
> >> // initialize and tally occurrences of second radix-N digit of x[i]-1:
> >> for( i = 0 ; i < N ; ++i )
> >>    a[i] = 0;
> >> for( i = 0 ; i < N ; ++i )
> >>    a[(x[i]-1)%N]++;
> >> // compute starting point for each radix digit:
> >> a[N-1] = N - a[N-1];
> >> for( i = N-2 ; N >= 0 ; --i )
> >>    a[i] = a[i+1] - a[i];
> >> // move numbers from temp array b back to array x:
> >> for( i = 0 ; i < N ; ++i )
> >>    x[a[(x[i]-1)%N]++] = b[i];
> >> // array is now sorted. Run time is O(N). Space is O(N).
>
> >> Dave
>
> >> On Aug 2, 11:04 am, pankaj kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > int a[N^2]={0},i,j;
> >> > for(i=0;i<N^2;i++)
> >> > {
> >> > cin>>j;
> >> > a[j]++;
>
> >> > }
>
> >> > for(i=0;i<N^2;i++)
> >> > {
> >> > if(a[i]!=0)
> >> > {
> >> > while(a[i]--)
> >> > {
> >> > cout<<i<<"\t";
>
> >> > }
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