Question: Problem 5. Superfast Software Inc. was founded last year by three young programmers. They all dreamed their company would become a really big one and

 Problem 5. Superfast Software Inc. was founded last year by three

Problem 5. Superfast Software Inc. was founded last year by three young programmers. They all dreamed their company would become a really big one and would distribute a large number of software products all over the world. Thus, they decided to use 64-bit integers to represent their inventory codes. Since it is just a one-year-old company, the inventory database now contains only 2000 distinct product codes, in the range from 1 to 3000. At this time they need to sort these codes and one of the co-founders sug- gests using a general comparison-based O(nlogn)-time sorting algorithm such as heap-sort. But another co-founder disagrees and suggests using radix-exchange sort because it is a so-called "linear time" (that is, O(n)) algorithm. Do you think radix exchange sort is good for this case? Explain your

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