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Bucket Sort – bucket sorting. The algorithm is similar to sorting by counting, with the difference that the numbers are collected into “buckets”-ranges, then the buckets are sorted using any other, sufficiently productive, sorting algorithm, and the final chord is the expansion of the “buckets” one by one, resulting in a sorted list.

The time complexity of the algorithm is O(nk). The algorithm runs in linear time for data that obeys a uniform distribution. To put it simply, the elements must be in a certain range, without “splashes”, for example, numbers from 0.0 to 1.0. If among such numbers there are 4 or 999, then such a series, according to the laws of the yard, is no longer considered “even”.

Implementation example in Julia:

function bucketSort(numbers, bucketsCount)
    buckets = Vector{Vector{Int}}()
    
    for i in 0:bucketsCount - 1
        bucket = Vector{Int}()
        push!(buckets, bucket)
    end

    maxNumber = maximum(numbers)

    for i in 0:length(numbers) - 1
        bucketIndex = 1 + Int(floor(bucketsCount * numbers[1 + i] / (maxNumber + 1)))
        push!(buckets[bucketIndex], numbers[1 + i])
    end

    for i in 0:length(buckets) - 1
        bucketIndex = 1 + i
        buckets[bucketIndex] = sort(buckets[bucketIndex])
    end

    flat = [(buckets...)...]
    print(flat, "\n")

end

numbersCount = 10
maxNumber = 10
numbers = rand(1:maxNumber, numbersCount)
print(numbers,"\n")
bucketsCount = 10
bucketSort(numbers, bucketsCount)

The performance of the algorithm is also affected by the number of buckets, for more numbers it is better to take a larger number of buckets (Algorithms in a nutshell by George T. Heineman)

Links

https://gitlab.com/demensdeum/algorithms/-/tree/master/sortAlgorithms/bucketSort

References

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuXbEb5ywrU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELrhrrCjDOA
https://medium.com/karuna-sehgal/an-introduction-to-bucket-sort-62aa5325d124
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/bucket-sort-2/
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPrF9yEKTks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_sort
https://julialang.org/
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/algorithms-in-a/9780596516246/ch04s08.html