Mastering Bucket Sort: A Comprehensive Guide

Bucket sort, also known as bin sort, is a comparison sort algorithm that distributes elements of an array into a number of buckets. Each bucket is then sorted individually, either using a different sorting algorithm or by recursively applying the bucket sort.

Where does Bucket sort shine?

• Uniformly Distributed Data
• Sorting Floating-Point Numbers
• Small Range of Integers

Step 1

We need to find the largest value in the array — 10.

Initial array

Step 2

We will initialize the array with the largest value from the initial array, which is 10. We will then create buckets from 0 to 10.

Step 3

Now, we will iterate through the initial array and place the values into buckets. Each index represents a value. What if we have multiple numbers with the same value? We will put them into the same bucket, using either a linked list or an array.