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32 changes: 32 additions & 0 deletions CountingSort/CountSort.cpp
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#include<bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
#define ln "\n";
#define TC() int t; cin >> t; while(t--)
#define IO() ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false); cin.tie(NULL); cout.tie(NULL)

int main(){

vector<int> arr = {1,4,1,2,7,5,2};
int max = *max_element(arr.begin(), arr.end());
int min = *min_element(arr.begin(), arr.end());
int range = max - min + 1;

vector<int> count(range), output(arr.size());
for (int i = 0; i < arr.size(); i++)
count[arr[i] - min]++;

for (int i = 1; i < count.size(); i++)
count[i] += count[i - 1];

for (int i = arr.size() - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
output[count[arr[i] - min] - 1] = arr[i];
count[arr[i] - min]--;
}

for (int i = 0; i < arr.size(); i++)
arr[i] = output[i];

for(auto i : arr) cout << i << " ";

return 0;
}
2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions CountingSort/README.md
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Counting sort is a sorting method which is used to sort the given array in linear time. It works like hashing technique,
where it counts the number of objects having distinct key values and does some prefix sum calculations and finds the position of each object in the output sequence.