The radix sort

The radix sort algorithm is also a distribution sort algorithm that distributes the integers into buckets based on a number's significant digit or value (the radix, hence the name radix sort). The radix is based on the number system of the values of the arrays.

For example, for numbers of the decimal system, radix 10 is used; therefore, the algorithm is going to use 10 buckets to distribute the elements and will first sort the numbers based on the 1s, then 10s, then 100s, and so on.

The following code represents the radix sort algorithm:

function radixSort(array, radixBase = 10) {  if (array.length < 2) {    return array;  }  const minValue = findMinValue(array);  const maxValue = findMaxValue(array); let significantDigit = 1; // ...

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