PHP Array Exercises : Sort an array of positive integers using the Bead-Sort Algorithm

PHP Array: Exercise-10 with Solution

Write a PHP program to sort an array of positive integers using the Bead-Sort Algorithm.

According to Wikipedia "Bead-sort is a natural sorting algorithm, developed by Joshua J. Arulanandham, Cristian S. Calude and Michael J. Dinneen in 2002. Both digital and analog hardware implementations of bead sort can achieve a sorting time of O(n); however, the implementation of this algorithm tends to be significantly slower in software and can only be used to sort lists of positive integers".

Input array : Array ( [0] => 5 [1] => 3 [2] => 1 [3] => 3 [4] => 8 [5] => 7 [6] => 4 [7] => 1 [8] => 1 [9] => 3 )

Sample Solution:

<?php
function columns($uarr)
{
$n=$uarr;
if (count($n) == 0)
 return array();
else if (count($n) == 1)
 return array_chunk($n[0], 1);
array_unshift($uarr, NULL);
 $transpose = call_user_func_array('array_map', $uarr);
return array_map('array_filter', $transpose);
}
function bead_sort($uarr)
{
foreach ($uarr as $e)
 $poles []= array_fill(0, $e, 1);
return array_map('count', columns(columns($poles)));
}
echo 'Original Array : '.'
';
print_r(array(5,3,1,3,8,7,4,1,1,3));
echo '
'.'After Bead sort : '.'
';
print_r(bead_sort(array(5,3,1,3,8,7,4,1,1,3)));
?>

Sample Output:

Original Array :                                            
Array                                                       
(                                                           
    [0] => 5                                                
    [1] => 3                                                
    [2] => 1                                                
    [3] => 3                                                
    [4] => 8                                                
    [5] => 7                                                
    [6] => 4                                                
    [7] => 1                                                
    [8] => 1                                                
    [9] => 3                                                
)                                                           
                                                            
After Bead sort :                                           
Array                                                       
(                                                            
    [0] => 8                                                
    [1] => 7                                                
    [2] => 5                                                
    [3] => 4                                                
    [4] => 3                                                
    [5] => 3                                                
    [6] => 3                                                
    [7] => 1                                                
    [8] => 1                                                
    [9] => 1                                                
) 

Flowchart:

PHP Code Editor:

Contribute your code and comments through Disqus.

Previous: Write a PHP script to calculate and display average temperature, five lowest and highest temperatures.
Next: Write a PHP program to merge (by index) the specified two arrays.