Bucket sort
Implementation
- Use
Math.min()
,Math.max()
and the spread operator (...
) to find the minimum and maximum values of the given array. - Use
Array.from()
andMath.floor()
to create the appropriate number ofbuckets
(empty arrays). - Use
Array.prototype.forEach()
to populate each bucket with the appropriate elements from the array. - Use
Array.prototype.reduce()
, the spread operator (...
) andArray.prototype.sort()
to sort each bucket and append it to the result.
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.