isn't the solution is counting sort?
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On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 11:48 PM, atul anand <atul.87fri...@gmail.com>wrote:

> first sort the given array , you will get
>
> 1,1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3,3,3,4,4,5
>
> now count frequency of each number and insert it into min heap.
> each node contain 2 variable.
> 1) frequency
> 2) number
>
> now do extract min operation.
>
> and expand , for eg:-
> for node 5
> frequency = 0
> number =5;
> write 5 to the given array
>
> for node 4
> frequency = 2
> number =4
> write 4,4 to array.
>
> for node 2
> frequency = 3
> number =2
>
> write 2,2,2 to the given array...
>
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Ankur Garg <ankurga...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> how can one do frequency sort .
>>
>> Suppose we have an integer array like
>>
>> 1,2,3,1,2,3,1,1,2,3,4,4,3,5,3
>>
>> Then 1 is appearing 4 times
>>           2 - 3
>>           3- 5
>>           4-2
>>           5-1
>>
>> Then if we sort by frequency we shud have this as result
>>
>> 5,4,4,2,2,2,1,1,1,1,3,3,3,3,3
>>
>> How to do it
>>
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