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Lecture 7: Counting Sort, Radix Sort, Lower Bounds for Sorting

Course
Introduction to Algorithms
Instructor
Erik Demaine
Department
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Recorded
Fall 2011
Level
Undergraduate
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This lecture starts by using the comparison model to prove lower bounds for searching and sorting, and then discusses counting sort and radix sort, which run in linear time.

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