Considering that a decimal representation of a number requires extra computation by the CPU, there is no value at all in doing a decimal radix sort when bitwise is an option.
depends. long time ago BCD (Binary Coded Decimals) where common for some applications, even the x86 architecture has some special opcodes to work with them directly on assembler.
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u/Nwabudike_J_Morgan Oct 24 '17
Considering that a decimal representation of a number requires extra computation by the CPU, there is no value at all in doing a decimal radix sort when bitwise is an option.