{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "This notebook was prepared by [Donne Martin](https://github.com/donnemartin). Source and license info is on [GitHub](https://github.com/donnemartin/interactive-coding-challenges)." ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "# Solution Notebook" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Problem: Implement radix sort.\n", "\n", "* [Constraints](#Constraints)\n", "* [Test Cases](#Test-Cases)\n", "* [Algorithm](#Algorithm)\n", "* [Code](#Code)\n", "* [Unit Test](#Unit-Test)" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Constraints\n", "\n", "* Is the input a list?\n", " * Yes\n", "* Can we assume the inputs are valid?\n", " * Check for None in place of an array\n", " * Assume array elements are ints\n", "* Do we know the max digits to handle?\n", " * No\n", "* Are the digits base 10?\n", " * Yes\n", "* Can we assume this fits memory?\n", " * Yes" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Test Cases\n", "\n", "* None -> Exception\n", "* [] -> []\n", "* [128, 256, 164, 8, 2, 148, 212, 242, 244] -> [2, 8, 128, 148, 164, 212, 242, 244, 256]" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Algorithm\n", "\n", "Sample input: [1, 220, 122, 112]\n", "\n", "* We'll evaluate each digit starting with the ones position\n", " * [**1**, 22**0**, 12**2**, 11**2**]\n", " * Bucket 0: 220\n", " * Bucket 1: 1\n", " * Bucket 2: 122, 112\n", " * Result: [220, 1, 122, 112]\n", " * [2**2**0, 1, 1**2**2, 1**1**2]\n", " * Bucket 0: 1\n", " * Bucket 1: 112\n", " * Bucket 2: 220, 122\n", " * Result: [1, 112, 220, 122]\n", " * [1, **1**12, **2**20, **1**22]\n", " * Bucket 0: 1\n", " * Bucket 1: 112, 122\n", " * Bucket 2: 220\n", " * Result: [1, 112, 122, 220]\n", "\n", "Bucketing example: 123\n", "\n", "* Ones\n", " * 12**3** // 10^0 = 123\n", " * 123 % 10 = 3\n", "* Tens\n", " * 1**2**3 // 10^1 = 12\n", " * 12 % 10 = 2\n", "* Hundreds\n", " * **1**23 // 10^2 = 1\n", " * 1 % 10 = 1\n", "\n", "Complexity:\n", "* Time: O(k*n), where n is the number of items and k is the number of digits in the largest item\n", "* Space: O(k+n)\n", "\n", "Misc:\n", "* Not in-place\n", "* Most implementations are stable\n", "\n", "If k (the number of digits) is less than log(n), radix sort can be faster than algorithms such as quicksort." ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Code" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 1, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "class RadixSort(object):\n", "\n", " def sort(self, array, base=10):\n", " if array is None:\n", " raise TypeError('array cannot be None')\n", " if not array:\n", " return []\n", " max_element = max(array)\n", " max_digits = len(str(abs(max_element)))\n", " curr_array = array\n", " for digit in range(max_digits):\n", " buckets = [[] for _ in range(base)]\n", " for item in curr_array:\n", " buckets[(item//(base**digit))%base].append(item)\n", " curr_array = []\n", " for bucket in buckets:\n", " curr_array.extend(bucket)\n", " return curr_array" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Unit Test" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 2, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [ { "name": "stdout", "output_type": "stream", "text": [ "Overwriting test_radix_sort.py\n" ] } ], "source": [ "%%writefile test_radix_sort.py\n", "import unittest\n", "\n", "\n", "class TestRadixSort(unittest.TestCase):\n", "\n", " def test_sort(self):\n", " radix_sort = RadixSort()\n", " self.assertRaises(TypeError, radix_sort.sort, None)\n", " self.assertEqual(radix_sort.sort([]), [])\n", " array = [128, 256, 164, 8, 2, 148, 212, 242, 244]\n", " expected = [2, 8, 128, 148, 164, 212, 242, 244, 256]\n", " self.assertEqual(radix_sort.sort(array), expected)\n", " print('Success: test_sort')\n", "\n", "\n", "def main():\n", " test = TestRadixSort()\n", " test.test_sort()\n", "\n", "\n", "if __name__ == '__main__':\n", " main()" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 3, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [ { "name": "stdout", "output_type": "stream", "text": [ "Success: test_sort\n" ] } ], "source": [ "%run -i test_radix_sort.py" ] } ], "metadata": { "kernelspec": { "display_name": "Python 3", "language": "python", "name": "python3" }, "language_info": { "codemirror_mode": { "name": "ipython", "version": 3 }, "file_extension": ".py", "mimetype": "text/x-python", "name": "python", "nbconvert_exporter": "python", "pygments_lexer": "ipython3", "version": "3.7.2" } }, "nbformat": 4, "nbformat_minor": 1 }