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Bucket sort

Implementation

const bucketSort = (arr, size = 5) => {
  const min = Math.min(...arr);
  const max = Math.max(...arr);
  const buckets = Array.from(
    { length: Math.floor((max - min) / size) + 1 },
    () => []
  );
  arr.forEach(val => {
    buckets[Math.floor((val - min) / size)].push(val);
  });
  return buckets.reduce((acc, b) => [...acc, ...b.sort((a, b) => a - b)], []);
};

bucketSort([6, 3, 4, 1]); // [1, 3, 4, 6]

Complexity

The algorithm has an average time complexity of O(n + k), where n is the size of the input array and k is the number of buckets.

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