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adds note explaining origin of the name 'radix sort' (#293)

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@ -7,6 +7,13 @@ is required, but because integers can represent strings of characters
(e.g., names or dates) and specially formatted floating point numbers, radix
sort is not limited to integers.
*Where does the name come from?*
In numeral systems, the word **radix** represents how many digits are possible.
For example, a binary system (using numbers 0 and 1) has a radix of 2 and a decimal
system (using numbers 0 to 9) has a radix of 10.
## Efficiency
The topic of the efficiency of radix sort compared to other sorting algorithms is