Assuming that the number of digits used is
not excessive, the worst-case cost for Radix Sort when
sorting n
keys with distinct key values is:
\Theta(n \log n)
\Theta(n)
\Theta(N)
\Theta(n^2)
It takes at least \log n
digits to
represent n
distinct values.
The cost is number of digits times number of records.
In a reasonable implementation, the number of digits won't
be much worse than \log n