Least Significant Digit Sort is an implementation of radix sort that starts from the least significant digit in a integer - i.e if taken from , Least Significant Digit Sort would start from .
When to use
LSD Sort is fastest when sorting short fixed length strings.
Example
Input: [170, 45, 75, 90, 2, 802, 2, 66]
Sort this array using Least Significant Digit Sort.
1. Least Significant Digits:
[170, 45, 75, 90, 2, 802, 2, 66]
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
[{170, 90}, {2, 802, 2}, {45, 75}, {66}]
2. Next Least Significant Digits:
[{170, 90}, {02, 802, 02}, {45, 75}, {66}]
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
[{02, 802, 02}, {45}, {66}, {170, 75}, {90}]
3. Next Least Significant Digits:
[{002, 802, 002}, {045}, {066}, {170, 075}, {090}]
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
[{002, 002, 045, 066, 075, 090}, {170}, {802}]
Output: [2, 2, 45, 66, 75, 90, 170, 802]