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QWhat is the time complexity of a radix sort algorithm for sorting an array of n elements with k digits in the worst case?

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Radix sort is a non-comparative sorting algorithm that sorts elements by their individual digits or bits. In the worst case, where the number of digits (k) is constant, radix sort performs counting sort or bucket sort on each digit. Since each counting sort or bucket sort takes linear time (O(n)), and there are k digits to sort, the overall time complexity becomes O(nk).

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